And there's more at PULP METAL MAGAZINE

'In his introduction for the crime anthology KILLER YEAR, the thriller writer Lee Child talks about buying records as a working class lad in 1960’s England. At the time, 45 rpm singles cost an ‘affordable’ six shillings and eightpence  but LP records cost so much more that they were a twice a year only event – birthdays and Christmas.

 

Later, he says, some record companies introduced budget price samplers - mainly prog rock- featuring two or three songs by ‘known’ bands  and the rest unknown or cult bands.

 

And this, he says, is what KILLER YEAR  is.  A sampler. It’s a good analogy and it’s a friggin’ good book with some particularly good stories from Bill Cameron, Ken Bruen, Sean Chercover,Dave White  Jason Pinter and Brett Battles. And there’s more...'

Read the rest of this at  my monthly column at Jason Michel's PULP METAL MAGAZINE.

  
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