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

(Roger Lewis, Mail on Sunday)​

'Some of the finest ever writing about this brilliant yet complicated collective' (Mojo)​'

'A brilliant book' (Stuart Maconie)​'

'A sad tale well told' (Uncut)​'

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

(Ian Penman, London Review of Books)