ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF SONGS

Songs about animals like Year of the Cat by Al Stewart, outstanding cover versions like Aretha Franklin's Respect or Johnny Cash's Hurt, songs about dying, songs inspired by novels or siblings, about films, Monty Python songs like Every Sperm is Sacred, songs about God and Jesus like Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven, songs about environmental matters like Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi, songs about the USA, countries, being broke, prostitution, acceptance, saying goodbye, getting dumped, other women like Dolly Parton's classic Jolene and iconic opening lines like 'Hello darkness, my old friend/I've come to talk with you again' written when Paul Simon was just 21 in his chosen spot for songwriting, his bathroom, with a tiled floor providing the perfect echo chamber for his guitar and voice. It's time to rock the Casbah, sway and sing along to all these mixed emotions and memories, some with lyrics worthy of a Nobel Prize for Literature, others raw and gritty. From Adele to Aretha, Jagger to Jarvis, Rufus to Rosalía, many are well known others a little more off-radar. Each list has a scannable Spotify code to access the music directly. With very cool portrait artworks throughout, 260pp.