Books written by Dylan Jones

Sweet Dreams: From Club Culture to Style Culture, the Story of the New Romantics

We were in Paris for a Helmut Newton shoot, and there was this mad expenditure of money. Steve was actually very eccentric, and he could be quite straight and provincial. We were staying at the George V, just around the corner from the ...
Elvis Has Left the Building: The Death of the King and the Rise of Punk Rock

... Carnaby Street bootlace ties and mail order drapes, thought it was inflammatory that all the punks would be coming in that day on little country buses from the likes of Newton Abbot and Ipplepen and Marlden and Ottery St Mary.
Mr. Mojo: A Biography of Jim Morrison

With thanks to Ed Victor, Nigel Newton, Jonathan Newhouse, Karl Badger, Max Bell, Maurice Boland, Gordon Burn, Robert Christgau, Nik Cohn, Nicholas Coleridge, John Densmore, Robin Derrick, Pamela Des Barres, Jeff Dexter, Tony Elliott, ...
IPOD, Therefore I Am

Others include Smeagol (Mac OS X 10.2.7), Jackson Pollack (QuickDraw), Gelato (the Newton MessagePad came in two flavors, 1 MB and 2 MB), Onyx (PowerBook G4), etc. As far as anyone can remember, the iPod was always just known as that.
Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams

Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams
David Bowie: The Oral History

Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds the story of a remarkable ...
David Bowie: A Life

"Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds the story of a remarkable ...
Sweet Dreams

The definitive oral history of the New Romantics, charting the British cultural explosion that happened in the ten years from 1975-1985.
The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music: From Adele to Ziggy, the Real A to Z of Rock and Pop

The Biographical Dictionary of Popular Music is an incredible and opinionated collection of celebrated cultural critic Dylan Jones's thoughts on more than 350 of the most important artists around the world—alive and dead, big and small, ...
Mr. Mojo: A Biography of Jim Morrison

Mr. Mojo is littered with little-known anecdotes from fellow stars, spurned lovers, and industry moguls. It is a refreshingly honest portrait of a self-indulgent artist with a penchant for pageantry and public self-destruction.
Jim Morrison: Dark Star

Jim Morrison was the quintessential Sixties pop star, a counter-culture hero who pushed himself--and his audience--to the limit. Part poet, part clown, part modern-day Renaissance man, Morrison created an image...
Elvis Has Left the Building: The Day the King Died

This is a fresh account, written with the author's customary panache, recounting how Elvis single-handedly changed the course of popular music and culture, and what his death meant and still means to us today.
Terry O'Neill

Terry O'Neill is one of the world's most celebrated and collected photographers.
Practical Goal Programming

Chapter 7 details the current state of the art in terms of the integration of goal programming with other techniques, and the text concludes with two case studies which were chosen to demonstrate the application of goal programming in ...
Black Book

Great read.""This book is totally a breath of fresh air when it comes to sci-fi novels." "Just great fantasy writing." "If you're a fan of sci-fi action then this book is for you.
IPod, Therefore I Am: Thinking Inside the White Box

IPod, Therefore I Am: Thinking Inside the White Box
Mr Mojo: A Biography of Jim Morrison

Mr Mojo is littered with little-known anecdotes from fellow stars, spurned lovers and industry moguls. It is a refreshingly honest portrait of a self-indulgent artist with a penchant for pageantry and public self-destruction.
The Pacific Northwest Lifestyle

The book describes 5 Pacific Northwest practices that can be followed by all populations regardless of what environment they dwell in.
Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That

Momo's was a Magimix world of bright lights, dim corners, high-pitched sexual tension and fast talk (it was louche and loud), and the first night I visited was no exception. It was 9.30 on a Friday evening and the place was full of ...
Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s

Subjective and idiosyncratic, Shiny and New takes us from downtown New York to post-industrial Manchester, in the first widescreen attempt to weave together the stories, the songs and events that re-shaped music and society.