About the Author

Christopher Sandford has been writing about pop music for twenty years, his articles appearing in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Spectator and the New York Times, amongst others. In 1998 Rolling Stone called him 'the preeminent author in his field today' and 'a man with his finger on the pulse of pop culture'. His books on major pop figures have been sold to fifteen countries and have featured on both the Sunday Times and the New York Times bestseller lists. He lives in Seattle with his family but returns frequently to the UK.