Liverpool Wondrous Place by Paul Du Noyer

Liverpool Wondrous Place

Music from the Cavern to the Coral

by Paul Du Noyer

Virgin Books, 2004, ISBN 0753508400, black and white photographic plates, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, sunned spine (See photographs)

“What makes “the Pool of Life” so different?  The birthplace pf he Beatles, it is the cradle of UK music.  It has produced more pop stars than anywhere else – from Cilla Black to Frankie Goes to Hollywood, form Billy Fury to Atomic Kitten.  But Liverpool has also been a byword for disaster – the Bad News Capital of Britain.  The twenty-first century has seen a dramatic restoration of Liverpool’s reputation with its successful bid to become the European Capital of Culture 2008.  Read the extraordinary story of this uniquely creative yet notorious town.  Find out why Liverpool is more than a place where music happens – Liverpool is a reason why music happens.  Featuring interviews with its key players, this book uncovers the musical impulse at the heart of Britain’s strangest, most self-obsessed city.”