'A sophisticated, immensely detailed study of a pop phenomenon, as absorbed and absorbing as the best literary biographies'(Roger Lewis, Mail on Sunday)​'Some of the finest ever writing about this brilliant yet complicated collective'(Mojo)​'A brilliant book'(Stuart Maconie)​'A sad tale well told'(Uncut)​'Doggett steers a sure course between deep Brian worship and the beckoning shallows, between trivia and telling detail'(Ian Penman, London Review of Books)