Let's do itBob Stanley tells the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record at the end of the nineteenth century to the beginnings of rock and the modern pop age. Taking in superstars such as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra alongside the unheralded songwriters and arrangers behind some of our most enduring songs, Stanley paints an aural portrait of pop music's formative years in stunning clarity,

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a Medieval English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for 'Gawain'

He looks at the high politics and low skulduggery that saw the principled but passive Asquith replaced as Prime Minister by the unscrupulous but energetic Lloyd George

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the lives of three teenagers are shattered by a horrific car crash in which a young woman is killed next to the sprawling oak tree that marks the perimeter of 18 Division Street

Laura quickly realises that her issues with Nick haven't been left behind

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from Frida Kahlo to Jane Goodall

Insightful accounts of events range from the early years of Queen Elizabeth II's reign to more recent years

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