Johnny Sharp

Mind The Bollocks: A Riotous Rant Through The Ridiculousness of Rock’n'Roll

Anova Books

This lightweight easy-to-flick-through set of quotes and myth-debunking might be the sort of present you buy for the rock’n’roll nerd in your life that has at least one album framed to hang on the wall, that reads (and/or writes) daily music musings; that delights in regaling with stories about rock’n’roll music from the 1960s through to the present day. And that (still) picks band t-shirts to wear to gigs and Casual Fridays.

Or you may just want to treat yourself to this book if you fit that bill and can’t wait until Christmas to see if it turns up in your stocking.

But know that you are getting a book by an author who, previously, turned in a thoroughly enjoyable but similarly lightweight/tongue-in-cheek page-flipper called Crap Lyrics.

Easy-read stories, and drinking-game musical analysis – it doesn’t bare close scrutiny. Nor anything more in the way of a review from me. I read it. Enjoyed it. And then moved on to something of substance. I’ll return to it, quote from it, possibly loan it to at least one friend – maybe even one day buy it for someone else as a gift. But none of that should ever, necessarily, be counted as a recommendation.