'A sophisticated, immensely detailed study of a pop phenomenon, as absorbed and absorbing as the best literary biographies'

(Roger Lewis, Mail on Sunday)

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'Some of the finest ever writing about this brilliant yet complicated collective'

(Mojo)

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'A brilliant book'

(Stuart Maconie)

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'A sad tale well told'

(Uncut)

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'Doggett steers a sure course between deep Brian worship and the beckoning shallows, between trivia and telling detail'

(Ian Penman, London Review of Books)