With entries for every day of the year, ranging from mini-essays to pithy and engaging sentences, Don’t Stop the Music: A Year of Pop History One Day at a Time, is a novel musical companion – a way of charting your year through the notable and trivial events in the lives and careers of pop stars and recording artists.

Whether it be the day your favourite album was released; the time your least favourite rocker went to see your favourite disco diva in concert; when that K-Pop star released their first single; or Serge Gainsbourg last outraged a TV audience, there are surprising or informative events from the history of popular music for every single day of the year. And Justin Lewis, an editor and contributor for the Guinness Book of Hit Singles and The Rough Guide to Rock Music, can put them all at your fingertips. We are really pleased to announce journalist Clair Woodward will be interviewing Justin at this special event on publication day. Tickets £5 (includes a drink).

‘A brilliant musical almanac, compiled by an engaging writer whose musical knowledge is not just detailed but wide-ranging and generous.’ – Jonathan Coe

‘A wonderful ride through our pop universe … an intoxicating music journey!’ – Peter Curran

‘This is an astonishing book, a calendar of pop, an almanac of songs, a day by day in the life of music. A book of events that’s an event in itself.’ – David Quantick