Some interesting forthcoming titles....

Even while I am still getting to grips with some of the outstanding music titles that appeared last year we have several forthcoming titles that whet the appetite. Here are just four :

Mary Wells : The Tumultuous Life of Motown's First Superstar by Peter Benjaminson (Zephyr Press Feb 2013)

I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp by Richard Hell (Ecco Press Mar 2013)

Midnight At The Barrelhouse : The Johnny Otis Story by George Lipsitz (University of Minnesota Press reprint Apr 2013)

Nilsson : The Life of a Singer-Songwriter by Alyn Shipton (OUP USA Aug 2013)

And looking much further into the future I can report that Marcus Odair's much-anticipated authorised biography of Robert Wyatt, titled Different Every Time is scheduled for publication by Serpent's Tail in April 2014.