Bob Stanley has worked as a music journalist, DJ, and record-label owner, and is the cofounder and keyboard player for the band Saint Etienne. He lives in London.
"Rich with musical history lived, worked, and felt, with dozens
more chapters and digressions that pay pop its due…Yeah! Yeah!
Yeah! is smart, funny, surprisingly deep for just how broad it is,
but, most of all, for stars and songs great and small, it is full
of love."
*Joshua Joy Kamensky - Los Angeles Review of Books*
"A landmark celebration, rumination and encapsulation of just about
everything worth knowing—and arguing—about the pop landscape… A
book for the ages."
*Matt Damsker - USA Today*
"Totally delicious…[full of] why-didn’t-I-think-of-that
connections… We're incredibly lucky to have this detailed map."
*David Kirby - Wall Street Journal*
"Like War and Peace but with a beat… Endlessly readable…
[Stanley's] passion and humor make Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! a delicious
read even, or rather especially, when it upends your own
views."
*James Reed - Boston Globe*
"[Stanley is] as clear-eyed about music as he is crazy in love with
it."
*Mikael Wood - Los Angeles Times*
"An immensely entertaining pop-music survey course. [Stanley] is
engagingly opinionated and often very, very funny… The assemblage
of irresistible, bite-size histories of top-of-the-charts stars is
joyful, smart, and addictive, just like the best pop songs, and a
must for music fans everywhere."
*Booklist, Starred review*
"[Stanley] provides an intriguing view of the shifting ground of
pop music."
*Publishers Weekly*
"Bob Stanley loves and finds surprising connections between a
thousand kinds of pop. He makes me want to run to the nearest
record store—and move in."
*Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields*
"Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! ties together the disparate strands of pop’s
shape-shifting history to create a vivid living document of the
music of our lives."
*Greg Milner, author of Perfecting Sound Forever*
"This book will be remembered and deserves to be."
*Robert Christgau - Barnes & Noble Review*
"Quixotic and kaleidoscopic, Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! serves up erudite
irreverence on every page. Like its sprawling subject, it invites
everyone in for a listen."
*Chris Vognar - Dallas Morning News*
"Tells the story of American and British pop music almost as
engagingly as the songs themselves."
*Glenn Gamboa - Newsday*
"Zips through decades of dance tunes and teenage heartthrobs with
an affectionate ebullience… As good ‘a story of pop music’ as a fan
could hope for."
*Ryan Little - Washington Post*
"[An] exuberant celebration of the silly and the sublime…
[Stanley’s] writing delights and surprises, and his description of
the music makes you want to dance to it."
*Sarah Larson - The New Yorker*
"{A] Roller-coaster ride through pop history… encourages readers to
look deeper into offshoots of ‘pop’ and performers they might not
be so familiar with."
*Bob Ruggiero - Houston Press*
"An ambitious undertaking… Stanley’s bold positions connect pop’s
many dots in fresh and fascinating patterns."
*Christian Science Monitor*
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