Advantages: A wealth of information; user friendly; outstanding value for money and interesting articles too. Disadvantages: A very minor gripe - the lack of a dedicated 'uk number 1's' section.
The "Virgin" Book of WHAT? I was a little surprised a few weeks ago to discover that after some 30 years the legendary Book of British Hit Singles was no longer published by Guinness but by Virgin. Aside from sentimental value however the change in publisher makes little difference to the overall value of this book. I will add that I would have greatly welcomed the change in publisher about 10 years ago when despite taking great care in compiling ... ...A previous edition of the Guinness Book was labelled along the lines of 'The Bible of Pop' and I personally agree. For those who are unfamiliar with the series the Book of British Hit Singles in basic terms has two listings sections, firstly by artist/band/duo etc whose hit singles have made the top 75 in the singles charts since 1952 when the charts as we came to know them were first compiled. Basically you can search for an artist such as ABBA ...
d_w86 04.01.2009
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