Christmas books: Pop music
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
... over the teen idol's car wreck, and the gangsta rappers bragging about the drive-by. Meanwhile Travis Elborough weeps over the fate of vinyl records in his anorakish The Long-Player Goodbye (Sceptre, £14.99). Definitely one for the format-nostalgic, Elborough's theory is that to listen to these crackly black discs "is to acknowledge our mutual decay".Fans of Gram Parsons don't...
















