A blog about Bloomsbury Academic's 33 1/3 series, our other books about music, and the world of sound in general.

Monday, October 05, 2009

Achtung Bono!

News reaches us via Neil McCormick's tweeting that Bono thinks the approach of Stephen Catanzarite's 33 1/3 on Achtung Baby "sounds bang on". Always good to get that kind of feedback!

In other news, currently at the printers are the 33 1/3 books on Brian Eno (no, really!), Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, and the Flaming Lips. And we'll know, within a month, if the books on the Clash, Nine Inch Nails, Lucinda Williams, and Van Dyke Parks are ever going to exist, or if they'll join the sad stack of 33 1/3s that never saw the light of day.

And I was thrilled to receive an email from Pete Astor in London, which is a good excuse to put this clip up - enjoy:

5 comments:

Nik said...

With the books that never were, is it just a case of the writers not being able to finish them?

Anonymous said...

Could you make a list/blog of all the could-have-been's, it would be fun to see.

Mr Jojo with a mojo said...

Could you throw a bone to some of the runners up of the last open call!

Yeah, London Calling - I'll do it, man. The whole thing, it's just etched on the mystic writing pad. No problem.

Anonymous said...

Yes, what's going on with the four books in question?

Been waiting for "Pinkerton" a long time...

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