Labelled with Love: A History of the World in Your Record Collection

＂Labelled with Love is an odyssey through your record collection and the world beyond it, from the Jazz Age to punk, the civil rights movement to Thatcherism, the Beatles to Britpop, and Ella Fitzgerald to The Ramones. Long-time music obsessive Andy Bollen tracks popular music through the influential labels that have shaped the last eighty years, chronicling each company with the passion of a fan but the eye of a satirist. This is an informative and revealing look at the leading labels, bands and music that rocked our worlds and shaped our lives.＂--

A lifelong pop music fan, obsessed with records, Andy Bollen was a professional touring drummer, comedy writer and author. For more than 20 years he has written for TV, radio and newspapers, including contributing to The New York Times.