Stuart Maconie

Everyone talks about Middle England. Sometimes they mean something bad & sometimes they mean something good. But just where & what is Middle England? The atuhor didn't know either, so he packed his Thermos & sandwiches and set off to find out.

In 'The People's Songs', Stuart Maconie argues that what we call pop music has a defiant, unsanctioned concept at its heart: the ability to speak to people, to affect people, to transform their lives. This book tells the story of modern Britain via the records that soundtracked this dramatic and kaleidoscopic period. The story is told chronological