This collection of reviews, interviews, articles, letters and lists written by Thomas Priestley reveal a writer not just spurred by the novelists and poets of the past but of a man almost ruled, albeit inspired my music. Charged by it's continueing states, and augmented sub genres in here one finds a severe passon and almost obsessive nature towards keeping music pure from egotism and produced solely by creativity and originality. This books will take you from searing rants to published reviews as Priestley analyzes and strips music down to it's bare roots, instantly noting it's highs, lows and comic events, . And if this goes to show ahything it is that the articles within this book prove that Priestley is the seminal rock critic of his age.