"A Forlorn Elegy for a Fading Institution"

"A dense and thorough history of pop music, Stanley’s book actually stops in 1999 because it was at this point that pop music, as he sees it, ceased to be ubiquitous. Smash Hits, Select, Melody Maker and the BBC’s Top of the Pops are all gone. Chart hits no longer have much of an era-defining quality to them, and regional-based underground music scenes, based around small pub and club venues, barely exist in any meaningful way."


Neil Davenport at spiked reviews Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop.


And in Stephin Merritt Salon interviews Stanley.