Bringing It All Back Home - Softcover

One of the best books about popular music ever written. --Record Collector

A music-powered helter-skelter of living and learning, as perceptive as a Bob Dylan lyric and as earthy as a Bessie Smith blues. --Val Wilmer

Ian Clayton has much to say and he says it so well. We need original eyes to look at the North in these days of extraordinary change. Ian's are among the region's most perceptive and humane. --The Guardian

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'The best read I've had all year, at times very funny, genuinely touching and always deeply personal. The perfect book for anyone who has defined their life through music and the memories of their youth.' - Joanne Harris

When you hear a certain song, where does it take you? What is the secret that connects music to our lives? Heart warming, moving and laugh out loud funny, Bringing It All Back Home is the truest book you will ever read about music and the things that really matter.

Author Ian Clayton listens to music as a kid to escape and as an adult to connect. In Bringing It All Back Home he has created a book about love, friendship, family and loss - about life and living it. While searching for a soundtrack to his own life story, he has discovered the heart that beats inside us all.

Foreword by Robert Wyatt

A Route Modern Classic