All the news from the year 2001.

Psychedelic Renegades - Update
18 Dec 2001: We have had an extraordinary flood of orders for our new Syd Barrett limited edition by Mick Rock. After just a week less than 50 of the Deluxe copies (those co-signed by Syd Barrett) are left for sale - so if you want one of these Deluxe copies you really must... More »

New Exile Reviews In Entertainment Weekly, Independent On Sunday And Mojo
18 Dec 2001: Exile continues to receive glowing reviews in the world's press. Giving the book a top-scoring 'A' rating, the massive-circulation US magazine Entertainment Weekly (30 November) wrote: 'Granted, this limited edition photo book costs more than two front-row tickets to the next inevitable Rolling Stones reunion tour. But it's hard to imagine... More »

Psychedelic Renegades the new limited edition book by By Mick Rock
11 Dec 2001: New Syd Barrett book available to order now We are now taking orders for our eagerly-awaited Syd Barrett title PSYCHEDELIC RENEGADES featuring the photographs and text of Mick Rock. There are only 950 copies, all numbered and signed by Mick, of which just 320 are Deluxe copies co-signed by Syd Barrett himself... More »

More Reviews Of 'sumptuous' Exile
3 Dec 2001: Last week the Financial Times described EXILE as 'sumptuous'. More reviews and comments in the press this week: 'A sumptuous memoir of that summer' - The Observer, 2 December 2001. 'A wonderful, sumptuous book' - Libby Purves, on Midweek (BBC Radio 4), 28 November. 'An absolutely beautiful book' - Ed Victor, leading literary agent, on... More »

George Harrison 1943-2001
3 Dec 2001: "Love one another." We have been touched by the overwhelming number of messages from people expressing their sadness and condolences at the passing of George Harrison and their thanks for the joy he brought in life. All messages will be passed on to Brian Roylance. More »

Sumptuous' Exile In The Ft
26 Nov 2001: EXILE was listed in the Financial Times' review of Christmas Books on 24 November. Below a photograph from the book (Mick watching Keith play guitar at the Nellcote dining table) was the following text: 'Stones strictly limited: above, Jagger and Richards making music in the South of France, 1971. That year,... More »

Watch Out For Exile In The Media This Week
26 Nov 2001: EXILE will be officially launched in the UK this week. There will be a major 8-page photo feature on EXILE in the Sunday Times Magazine on 2 December. A text-only version should be available from the Sunday Times website. Anita Pallenberg, who contributed text and appears in many photographs in the book,... More »

Exile In Vogue
5 Nov 2001: Vogue.com, the online version of Vogue magazine, ran a news item on EXILE on 2nd November, focusing on Anita Pallenberg's contribution to the book. Vogue's verdict was that Exile 'documents one blissful six-month stint in the South of France with the Rolling Stones,' and that it 'is bound to become a... More »

Exile In Italy
30 Oct 2001: On 19 October Italy's national newspaper La Repubblica ran a 6-page photo feature on EXILE in their weekly colour magazine supplement Il venerdi di Repubblica. Here's an excerpt from the accompanying article (translation thanks to Paul Nathanson): 'Exactly 30 years after the Stones' stay at the villa Nellcôte a book of photos... More »

Queen And Syd Barrett Preview Pages
30 Oct 2001: Two new preview pages are up on the site, featuring two more books by photographer Mick Rock. PSYCHEDELIC RENEGADES features his photographs of Syd Barrett; this page was posted on the site last week and we expect to start taking orders fairly soon. Next spring, following hot on the heels of PSYCHEDELIC... More »

A Time To Live: Update
30 Oct 2001: Given that A TIME TO LIVE was delayed from the year 2000, we are delighted to announce that Sir Arthur C. Clarke has agreed to write the Afterword to the book (covering the year 2001, of course). More »

Exile's Binding Unveiled
10 Oct 2001: We are now pleased to reveal images of the binding for our new Rolling Stones title EXILE. Images of both Deluxe and Regular bindings can be found on the book's preview page. Please note that all the Deluxe copies, which are bound in full yellow leather, sold out in advance. The... More »

Exile: Shipping Now
21 Sep 2001: Finished copies of EXILE, our new Rolling Stones limited edition by Dominique Tarlé, started leaving our bookbinders in Milan yesterday. Advance orders should all leave within the next four weeks. EXILE is one of the finest of all Genesis books. Deluxe copies are sold out already but regular copies bound in... More »

Mania Days On The Front Page
4 Sep 2001: MANIA DAYS graced the front-page of the Sunday Times magazine on 2nd September. Britain's biggest-selling Sunday broadsheet ran a full-page cover and a 7-page article inside featuring Curt Gunther's stunning photographs from the book. You can view the piece online at the Sunday Times website. Copies of the book are much... More »

Liverpool 5, Germany 1
4 Sep 2001: England's awesome defeat of Germany in a World Cup qualifying match in Munich on 1st September underlines the revival of Liverpool FC: all five goals in the 5-1 win were scored by players from the club. Following on from Liverpool's treble-winning season, Liverpool are hot property again. 'The Sunday newspapers have... More »

Moonage Daydream: Preview of Binding Design
8 Aug 2001: Today we unveil a preview of the provisional binding and box design [see preview page] for next year's David Bowie/Mick Rock limited edition MOONAGE DAYDREAM. The design on the box is a faithful recreation of the clothing pattern David Bowie wore on the cover of the Ziggy Stardust LP. The book... More »

Winner Of Second Exile Competition Announced
6 Aug 2001: Our second EXILE competition has now closed. We asked the following question: 'Trevor Churchill "found" piles of tapes in the Stones' Bermondsey warehouse, took them to Olympic Studios, catalogued them and took some of them down to the Villa Nellcôte for the Stones to hear. Which Stones version of a Jimi... More »

Ravi Shankar On The South Bank Show
6 Aug 2001: Fans of Ravi Shankar in the UK should not miss The South Bank Show this Sunday, which will profile for the first time India's great musician. Ravi has been interviewed at length this year for the programme, which airs on ITV on 12 August. Transmission time is scheduled for 10.45pm though... More »

Mania Days: Extract From A Book Review
31 Jul 2001: Andy Davis's review of MANIA DAYS published in Record Collector magazine issue no. 264 (August 2001) has left us pleased as punch. Copies of MANIA DAYS, which features Curt Gunther's photographs of The Beatles on their first big tour of North America in the late summer of 1964, are available here... More »

Exile: Interview With Author Dominique Tarlé
25 Jul 2001: An exclusive interview with author Dominique Tarlé, whose beautiful and intimate photographs of The Rolling Stones grace our new volume EXILE: The Making of Exile on Main St., is now available for reading on this site. Dominique's conversation with Brian Roylance, founder and Publisher of Genesis Publications, about the making of... More »

Michael Putland's Portfolio Prints Available
26 Jun 2001: Now available at the Genesis Gallery on this site is a collection featuring some of the finest rock'n'roll photography - a portfolio of platinum palladium prints by Michael Putland entitled Classic British Rock. Michael Putland is one of the world's leading music photographers and is well known to many Genesis subscribers through... More »

An Update: Good News For Montserrat
26 Jun 2001: The auctioning of the 'Yesterday for Montserrat' limited edition prints signed by Sir George Martin and Sir Paul McCartney has started wonderfully well. The winning bid for copy number 1, the most prestigious print of the edition of 500, was over US$30,000 (not, as previously reported here, $70,010, which was apparently... More »

Yesterday For Montserrat
14 Jun 2001: Today, 36 years after the original recording at Abbey Road Studios of The Beatles' 'Yesterday', which became the most-recorded song in history, Sir George Martin and Sir Paul McCartney are launching a charity auction of 500 signed lithographs of George Martin's original 1965 score. The aim of the auction, organised by Yahoo!,... More »

This Is Anfield! LIMITED EDITION BOOK
11 Jun 2001: Photographs by Steve Hale, Text by Andrew Thompson.Foreword by Kevin Keegan. Having published two highly-acclaimed books on racing, Genesis is going to continue its sports list by publishing our first volume on football (that's soccer to our American readers). We are currently working on THIS IS ANFIELD, which will be the ultimate history... More »

Exile Competition Winners
11 Jun 2001: There's been a minor cock-up. We're sorry. We were first advised that The Who's LIVE AT LEEDS was recorded on the Rolling Stones' mobile studio. After posting the competition we were advised that this album was recorded using the Pye unit. Therefore there are two winning answers to our competition instead... More »

Moonage Daydream Update: One Year (that's All We've Got...)
6 Jun 2001: A year from today, 6th June 2002, will be the 30th anniversary of the original release of David Bowie's album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. This is a little reminder that to mark the date Genesis will be publishing a Ziggy Stardust limited edition... More »

Exile: The Making Of Exile On Main St.
5 Jun 2001: Preview page now online - orders are now being taken EXILE is our largest Rolling Stones production to date, and its importance doesn't need to be explained to Stones fans so we've devoted an unprecedented three pages to this title on the site. Demand is high and we suggest you act fast,... More »

Price Increases
30 May 2001: You will notice from the order form that prices on most of our titles have just been increased. We always make every effort to keep our costs down but this increase, the first since 1999, reflects increases in production costs and the fact that certain titles are almost sold out. More »

Maximum Who LIMITED EDITION BOOK
30 May 2001: This book of classic 60's images of The Who compiled by Ross Halfin is now well underway. Given that last year's The Who Live, also compiled by Ross, is now almost sold out, we anticipate a very high demand for this companion volume. Please register your interest by email to robby@genesis-publications.com. More »

Anoushka Shankar Begins Debut Uk Tour
30 May 2001: Anoushka Shankar kicks off her debut solo tour of the UK on 31st May when she performs at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank complex. Ravi Shankar's daughter, who will turn 20 during the tour, plays classical sitar like her father, and is in fact the only student who... More »

Bob Dylan Reaches Highway 60
23 May 2001: On 24th May Bob Dylan celebrates his 60th birthday. We at Genesis salute one of the twentieth century's great world artists and thank him for all his works. Dylan fans looking to fill their bookshelves should visit our Bob Dylan books page. More »

Syd Barrett LIMITED EDITION BOOK
22 May 2001: Our new project on Syd Barrett featuring the superb photographs of Mick Rock has now begun. Layouts are now in preparation and Syd has already signed the sheets for 250 deluxe copies. This limited edition will be published in Autumn. A competition will follow shortly. To register your interest please email... More »

The Beatles Anthology, Mania Days And A Time To Live
4 May 2001: I am afraid that I have some disappointing news. There is not going to be a limited edition of The Beatles Anthology book after all. Any decision by The Beatles has to be unanimous to proceed and although there was a majority vote for the limited edition this was not sufficient. Naturally,... More »

Moonage Daydream: The Life And Times Of Ziggy Stardust
1 May 2001: by David Bowie and Mick Rock We're pleased to announce that we shall be publishing a major new signed limited edition book by David Bowie and Mick Rock next year. For all you Ziggy fans, full details and sample pictures are on the new preview page, where you can also join the... More »

Bill Wyman Tour Dates 2001
24 Apr 2001: Bill Wyman will be embarking soon on a lengthy tour of the UK and continental Europe. Dates are as follows (UK unless stated): International Jazz Festival. Cheltenham (May 2nd), Paradiso, Amsterdam, Holland (3rd), Ospel Moulin Blues Festival, near Tilburg, Holland (4th), Blues Festival, Esbjerg, Denmark (5th), Stavanger Konserthus, Stavanger, Norway (6th), Oslo Konserthuset, Oslo, Norway (7th), Music Theatre,... More »

We Will Rock You LIMITED EDITION BOOK
3 Apr 2001: Photographs by Mick Rock, Foreword by Brian May. We are pleased to announce that we are working on our first limited edition book on Queen. WE WILL ROCK YOU features the photographs of legendary lensman Mick Rock, and will be released later this year. Mick Rock was requested to shoot the first major... More »

Band Of Gypsys - JIMI HENDRIX Limited Edition book
26 Mar 2001: For those of you who continue to enquire about this Jimi Hendrix book, things are moving forward now and we plan to publish at Christmas 2001. If you are interested in a copy and have not yet been in touch with us, please send us an email to bog@genesis-publications.com and we... More »

Ravi Shankar Receives Knighthood
26 Mar 2001: Britain is conferring an honorary knighthood upon Ravi Shankar. At a ceremony in New Delhi on 27 March, the British High Commissioner will create Pandit Shankar an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. We at Genesis Publications offer our warmest congratulations to Ravi for this most... More »

Improvements To The Site
23 Mar 2001: From now on, we are introducing 'rolling news updates' on this page. Each news item will be dated, with latest items situated at the top of the page so that you can find them more easily, and older items further down the page. As you may have noticed, we have also added... More »

Mania Days
23 Mar 2001: Regular Copies of MANIA DAYS are being despatched from our bookbinders this week. Deluxe copies will follow shortly. If you haven't yet ordered your copy of MANIA DAYS, please read about it here. More »

Pete Townshend On The Who Live
23 Mar 2001: Pete Townshend referred to the Genesis book/CD set THE WHO LIVE between songs on stage at Birmingham NEC on 8 November 2000: "I was just looking at this guy Ross Halfin that's pissing around down the front taking pictures. He just put a really great book of live Who pictures together...... More »

Beatles Anthology Wins Award
23 Mar 2001: The Beatles Anthology book, which was compiled, edited and prepared for press by Genesis Publications, was awarded the BCA Illustrated Book of the Year at the British Book Awards in London on 22 February. The awards, popularly known as the 'Nibbies', have been running since 1990 and express the book trade's... More »

Jack Vettriano The Limited Edition
14 Feb 2001: Our newest book is a special 250-copy limited edition of LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS, the beautiful new volume of Jack Vettriano's paintings which was recently published in the book trade. Jack Vettriano has rapidly established a name for himself as Scotland's leading contemporary artist, and the stylish nostalgia and charged romance of... More »

George Harrison: Stop Press
30 Jan 2001: And as we go to press, we can announce that on 30th January George Harrison launched his own first website, www.allthingsmustpass.com. You'll find some friendly gnomes there, who will show you all kinds of treasures relating to George's classic 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass, including materials from his personal... More »