Rob Chapman
Rob Chapman’s first novel, Dusk Music (Flambard), is an elaborate mosaic revealing the outsiders, refuseniks and uncompromising spirits who roam the fringes of popular culture.
He has been a regular contributor to Mojo, Uncut and The Times, as well as a broadcaster with the BBC national network. He is the author of Album Covers From The Vinyl Junkyard and Selling The Sixties: The Pirates And Pop Music Radio, which was included in the Guardian’s top ten music books of the year in 1992.
He was singer and lyricist with the Bristol-based post-punk band Glaxo Babies. John Peel was a keen supporter of the band and two compilations of their output, Dreams Interrupted and The Porlock Factor, have recently been released. Chapman is currently a Senior Lecturer in Music Journalism at the University of Huddersfield. He lives in Manchester and is working on a biography of the late Syd Barrett.
Dusk Music costs £8.99 and will be published in April 2008. ISBN: 978-1-873226-95-7
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