Tales from the Bedroom Floor

London: Bantam Press, 1988 Why is this book on the bedroom floor?: I ordered it from a bookseller on eBay, having never come across it in any library or second-hand. It’s like it was deleted from history, and be that because of its size or notoriety, the only way I was going to be able to judge it for myself was to pay a few quid. About the Author: Albert Goldman was an academic and biographer whose writings on American pop culture appeared in a number of leading publications. A widely-praised biography of Lenny Bruce was eventually followed by a notorious biography of Elvis Presley , in which critics saw reflected Goldman’s apparent dislike of his subject. At the time of his death in 1994, Goldman was working on a biography of late Doors lead singer Jim Morrison, which was unpublished. He taught at numerous universities in New York during his life, finishing his life as an associate professor at Columbia University. Plot: Without a shadow of a doubt, the most controversial biograp...

London: Omnibus Press, 2001 Why is this book on the bedroom floor? - I’m currently researching a new novel with a background in the music industry, so I’m interested to learn how supergroups of ABBA's calibre reached the top. This book is cheating slightly - technically it belongs to Worcestershire Libraries, but when I came to borrow it, there was a fault because the library has had a new database and this book doesn’t exist on it, having been missed in their scanning exercise. So this is a non-book, in my possession, but like a good ex-librarian, I very much intend to return it. About the Author - Hailing from Sweden, Carl Magnus Palm is one of the world’s foremost ABBA historians, and in addition to acclaimed books about the band, he has been heavily involved with special editions of the band’s reissues and work with the ABBA museum with Stockholm. Although he has written about other artists, his focus seems to be continuing research into ABBA and what he doesn’t kno...