Paolo Hewitt

Både langtidsfans og nye generasjoner får her en unik innsikt i hvert eneste Bowie-album fra debuten i 1967 til den aller siste utgivelsen i 2016, Blackstar. David Bowie er popmusikkens mest geniale kameleon. Gjennom 27 studioalbum har han gang på gang prestert å gjenskape seg selv, både musikalsk og imagemessig. Ingen har med samme eleganse og teft vært i stand til å leke så hemningsløst med jazzig croonerpop, teatral glamrock, myk soul, rå funk, stemningsfull elektronika og mengder av andre stilarter. Og ingen andre har som Bowie bygget broer mellom populærmusikk og avantgarde, underholdning og kunst, og på toppen av alt blitt filmstjerne og moteikon. David Bowie: Album for album er den ultimate feiringen av hans samlede karriere. Den svært anerkjente musikkskribenten og -biografen Paolo Hewitt forteller om den kreative tilblivelsen av disse platene, og om hvordan de har påvirket hele popmusikken. Både langtidsfans og nye generasjoner får her en unik innsikt i hvert eneste Bowie-album fra debuten i 1967 til den aller siste utgivelsen i 2016, Blackstar. Bildematerialet i boka er enestående. Det spenner fra ikoniske motiver til blinkskudd som knapt har vært publisert før, signert noen av verdens ledende fotografer. Ingen kunne som Bowie posere i hysteriske kostymer og surrealistisk sminke - på albumcovere og på scenen, i musikkvideoer og i motemagasiner. I tillegg er boka full av mer intime, bak kulissene-foto som viser musikeren i arbeid.

Paolo Hewitt has known Paul Weller since they were both teenagers in the depths of Woking, through his ascent to fame with The Jam, the halcyon years of The Style Council and for all of his critically acclaimed solo career. Hewitt has even been the inspiration for some of Weller's songs - and he has extraordinary in-depth knowledge of the inspiration behind the rest.Once, when Hewitt interviewed Weller for a music magazine, he complained - 'I don't know why people ask me all these questions. All the answers are in my songs.' Largely unnoticed, Weller has used thirty-years of lyrics to explore his personal history and beliefs. Taking as his starting point these lyrics, alongside a lifetime's friendship, Paolo Hewitt shows us the real Paul Weller, the man inside the music.

Robin Friday was an exceptional footballer who should have played for England. He never did. Robin Friday was a brilliant player who could have played in the top flight. He never did. Why? Because Robin Friday was a man who would not bow down to anyone, who refused to take life seriously and who lived every moment as if it were his last. For anyone lucky enough to have seen him play, Robin Friday was up there with the greats. Take it from one who knows: 'There is no doubt in my mind that if someone had taken a chance on him he would have set the top division alight,' says the legendary Stan Bowles. 'He could have gone right to the top, but he just went off the rails a bit.' Loved and admired by everyone who saw him, Friday also had a dark side: troubled, strong-minded, reckless, he would end up destroying himself. Tragically, after years of alcohol and drug abuse, he died at the age of 38 without ever having fulfilled his potential. The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw provides the first full appreciation of a man too long forgotten by the world of football, and, along with a forthcoming film based on Friday's life, with a screenplay by co-author Paolo Hewitt, this book will surely give him the cult status he deserves.