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Bob Geldof: ‘Band Aid’s time has been. I would like to bow out’ Forty years on from Band Aid and Live Aid, is Bob Geldof ready to take a step back from duelling with politicians, NGOs and global financial institutions?

Bob Geldof: ‘Band Aid’s time has been. I would like to bow out’

Live Aid: The Definitive 40 Year Story @newmodernbooks.bsky.social is a beast of a book

www.thetimes.com/article/3892...

It has been an incredibly satisfying week for New Modern. Extracts, reviews, TV, launches, new events. Nothing is ever taken for granted. So thank you to everyone who supports us and thank you to everyone who reads our books. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoy making them x

To celebrate the publication of ‘Live Aid: The Definitive 40 Year Story’ join Bob Geldof and Paul Valley in conversation with Dylan Jones at Foyles Charing Cross Road

11-11-25

7pm

www.foyles.co.uk/events/bob-g...

Mike Joyce In Conversation
2025 Book Tour

Kicking off this Saturday in Leeds with @chrishawkinsdj.bsky.social

A dazzling array of guest hosts

Additional special event at Rough Trade East on Sunday 9th November with @matosman.bsky.social

Tour: tinyurl.com/325x5eer
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Teenage Daydream by Debsey Wykes review – coming of age in an all-girl guitar band Dolly Mixture’s singer and bassist looks back on their time chasing mainstream success and facing down outrageous sexism

“Teenage Daydream winningly captures the devil-may-care optimism of adolescence”
@theguardian.com

@debseyonbass.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

6th November 2025

PAUL VALLELY with BOB GELDOF:
‘Live Aid: The Definitive 40 Year Story’

PETER DOGGETT:
‘Surf’s Up: Brian Wilson & the Beach Boys’

MIKE JOYCE:
‘The Drums’

Coming Next Week on @newmodernbooks.bsky.social

‘LAZARUS: THE SECOND COMING OF DAVID BOWIE’

A major new biography by @alexlarman.bsky.social

Exclusive interviews with his closest collaborators

Unseen photos

01-01-26

Now available to pre-order

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Design:Stuart Tolley

‘The Tremolo Diaries’ by Justin Currie is out now. With huge thanks to Jools Holland

Sweet Dreams: An Interview with Debsey Wykes of Dolly Mixture | The Quietus Aug Stone talks to the Dolly Mixture singer/bassist about her new book, Teenage Daydream, chronicling the band’s brushes with success

Any Dolly Mixture fans here? Hope so, they were one of the greatest bands to ever exist, and Debsey's new memoir is excellent. I spoke to her about it for The Quietus @thequietus.com @newmodernbooks.bsky.social @debseyonbass.bsky.social
thequietus.com/culture/book...

The biggest artists, the best music writers

New 5 ⭐️ books from New Modern

‘RINGO - A FAB LIFE’
by TOM DOYLE
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Record Collector
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @mojomagazine.bsky.social
10/10 @classicrockmag.bsky.social

‘PINK FLOYD SHINE ON’
by MARK BLAKE
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ RC
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mojo
8/10 @uncutmagazine.bsky.social

"(The) definitive biography. An engaging, meticulous view of the life of the Beatles drummer. It fleshes out with sharp analysis the well documented events whilst detailing -with no little sparkle- some of the lesser known aspects of his remarkable career"
@theipaper.com

inews.co.uk/culture/book...

This book is 100% fab.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Record Collector

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @mojomagazine.bsky.social

“An essential purchase 10/10” @quantick.bsky.social, Classic Rock

“A wonderful book” @beatlespod.bsky.social

“A beautiful read” @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

“A seriously brilliant book” @beatlesbookspod.bsky.social

OUT NOW

#ringo

How Ringo Starr made the Beatles | The Observer Tom Doyle's biography shows how Ringo used his light-entertainer charm and instinctive talent to become the engine of the Beatles sound

‘Ringo-A Fab Life’ by Tom Doyle

Out tomorrow

@theobserveruk.bsky.social

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Justin Currie talks Tremolo Diaries around the piano on this weeks Later…with Jools Holland

Sunday 26th October
BBC 2 10pm

Huge thanks to @wimbookfest.bsky.social and @johnkennedydj.bsky.social for Justin’s sold out event at the Merton Arts Space. But a special thanks to everyone who came out on a wet Monday night and patiently joined a 90 min signing queue. Justin happy to dispense writing tips to anyone who asked….

Take THAT, Lady Di!

Mark Blake talking Pink Floyd to @earlsjohn.bsky.social across two pages in today’s Express:

www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2122...

Out now:
www.resident-music.com/product/blak...

#pinkfloyd
@resident-music.com

Pink Floyd: Shine On Review: Revealing oral history

The whole brilliant, sorry saga of Pink Floyd in their own – and a multitude of others’ – words. Read MOJO's review in full.

‘Ringo - A Fab Life’ by Tom Doyle

Out next week

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Record Collector

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @mojomagazine.bsky.social

“A beautiful read” @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social

“Informative, witty and fast paced. An essential purchase for music fans, never mind Beatles fans. 10/10”
@classicrockmag.bsky.social

Thank you @quantick.bsky.social

‘Ringo - A Fab Life’ by Tom Doyle

23-10-25

PINK FLOYD SHINE ON by Mark Blake is OUT NOW!

tinyurl.com/3en9n2em

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#pinkfloyd

Packed, somewhat balmy Slaughtered Lamb, Clerkenwell for Debsy Wykes Teenage Daydream London book launch. Thanks to @sian-superman.bsky.social for excellent hosting and everyone for coming out to play. Fun night lots of love in the room for #DollyMixture @newmodernbooks.bsky.social

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Record Collector

‘Ringo-A Fab Life’ by Tom Doyle

Beautiful finished copies now in

23-10-25

OUT NEXT WEEK

“I’m now free of the hassle and the deliberate spokes in the wheel that have gone on in the many years since Roger left. It hasn’t been easy to try and keep it on an even keel to be honest. But now I no longer have to give a shit”
David Gilmour

Shine On

09-10-25

amzn.eu/d/1OY2tKQ

"Fresh insights from preeminent Floyd historian who has distilled a lifetime's fandom and 33 year relationship with the band into a compelling retelling of the story. (Contains) new, unpublished and rare discussions with all the main players and a dizzying plethora of intimates”

Mojo

‘Teenage Daydream’ by Debsey Wykes is OUT NOW

“A brilliant time capsule. Debsey writes wonderfully” @nivenj1.bsky.social

“A pure delight”
Mark Ellen

“An inspiring, insightful read”
Lucy O’Brien

“A vivid, rollercoaster read. Highly recommended”
@garycrowleyonair.bsky.social

OUT TOMORROW

amzn.eu/d/e54ADyT

@debseyonbass.bsky.social

What a beauty!
‘Teenage Daydream: We are the Girls Who play in a Band’ by @debseyonbass.bsky.social is out next week

Pre-order it now:
amzn.eu/d/e54ADyT

Design by Paul Kelly

Tonight we hosted Justin Currie who talked with Joe Haddow about some of the serious matters in his book ‘The Tremolo Diaries’📚

With the occasional touch of lightness and some great audience questions!♥️

@newmodernbooks.bsky.social