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19 December 2002 GERRY MARSDEN ON RADIO FIVE LIVETune into Sport on Five between 8pm and 9pm tonight when Gerry Marsden will be talking about This is Anfield. Gerry famously recorded 'You'll Never Walk Alone', a song which was to become the Kop's anthem, the title incorporated into Anfield's famous iron gates. He contributed many memories to the book and kindly signed many of the copies too.18 December 2002 THIS IS ANFIELD: 'THE GREATEST FOOTBALL BOOK EVER'Liverpoolfc.tv, the club's official website, couldn't be more impressed with This Is Anfield. Read the review here.18 December 2002 We have stopped taking orders for Christmas deliveryDue to this busy time of year for the postal and courier services, we will not be able to deliver any recently-ordered books in time for Christmas. You can still order books from us up until Christmas Eve for delivery next year. The office will be closed from Christmas Day until January 2nd but you can continue to order books from our website throughout this period.12 December 2002 YOUR BACKSTAGE PASSWe are in the process of building an exciting new feature on this website. Look out for the Backstage coming in the New Year, your access to all areas. Post your own comments about our books; read in full the press reviews; learn in detail the stages in our books' production from editorial to their design and printing; read exclusive interviews with photographers and authors and win fabulous Genesis books. As a taster, click here for some of the comments we've received from you about Moonage Daydream so far. 
11 December 2002
MAXIMUM WHO IS 'A VERY BEAUTIFUL THING', SAYS TIME OUT
'a sublime Christmas gift idea... 'Maximum Who: The Who in the Sixties' is a
signed and numbered limited-edition, large format, hardback book (in the
style of similar previous books on Dylan and the Stones). Compiled by
photographer Ross Halfin, it is a very beautiful thing. Superb, classic and
intimate photographs of the band drive the narrative. One picture in
particular of a young John Entwistle at home in Acton is a telling and
evocative portrait from a different, simpler time. Entwistle sits on the
living room floor of the family home playing guitar while his mum sits in a
chair next to him, sewing.'
Time Out Magazine, December 2002
The 250 Deluxe copies of Maximum Who, signed by Roger Daltrey, have sold out but we still have some Regular copies available. Order yours now. 
3 December 2002
PERFECT CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR LENNON FANSSometime In New York City is a detailed personal portrait of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, featuring the mostly full colour and previously unpublished photographs of Bob Gruen. In their own words, the book tells the tale of John and Yoko's life in New York City from 1971 to 1980. Only 100 copies signed by Yoko Ono are left. We have just added two new movies to the Picture House where Bob Gruen describes his unique relationship with this extraordinary couple. A superb Christmas present for lovers of all things Lennon. Order your copy now and we will guarantee delivery for Christmas. (Cut-off date for Christmas orders is Tuesday 17th December).
2 December 2002 MOONAGE DAYDREAM SHIPPING UPDATEThe first shipment of Deluxe copies of Moonage Daydream are being sent to customers now. All the Deluxe copies will be shipped in the next couple of weeks. Our binders in Milan are working hard to send out as many Regular copies of Moonage Daydream as they can by the end of the year. The 350 Deluxe copies of this limited edition have sold out. Some Regular copies are still available - order yours now!
6 November 2002 SOMETIME IN NEW YORK CITY: UPDATEThe internet preview page for this wonderful book has been updated. Along with more photos and textual excerpts, it is now possible to see the distinctive aluminium cover that makes this one of our most ambitious productions ever. Featuring the unique, and legendary, photos of John Lennon's life in New York, taken by friend and leading photographer Bob Gruen, text is by Yoko Ono, Bob Gruen and Lennon himself. A few copies of Sometime In New York City, signed by both Bob Gruen and Yoko Ono, are still available.  25 October 2002
THIS IS ANFIELD: OWEN, GERRARD AND MURPHY SIGN
We are pleased to announce that Michael Owen, Steven Gerrard and Danny Murphy have just added their names to the historic tally of This Is Anfield signatories. Every copy of This Is Anfield is signed by Ronnie Moran and at least 4 other players. The list of those participating in the signing is now as follows: Ian Callaghan, David Fairclough, Steven Gerrard, Steve Hale, Brian Hall, Tony Hately, David Johnson, Alan Kennedy, Phil Neal, Tommy Lawrence, Steve McMahon, Gerry Marsden, Ronnie Moran, Danny Murphy, Michael Owen, Tommy Smith, Ian St John, Willie Stevenson, Albert Stubbins, Andrew Thompson, Barry Venison and Ron Yeats. Deluxe copies are additionally signed by Gérard Houllier. And to celebrate the imminent launch of this title, Waterstones on Bold Street, Liverpool will be holding their own special in-store signing of This Is Anfield with Ian St John, Ian Callaghan, and at least one other Liverpool star (tbc), at 3pm, 21st November 2002. If you live locally, stop by to purchase your copy of This Is Anfield and have it personalised for you by these club legends. Alternatively you may wish to wait until the following day as from 22nd November 2002 until early 2003, The Mathew Street Gallery, Mathew Street, Liverpool, will be hosting a very special This Is Anfield exhibition. On the walls will be the best of Steve Hale's stunning photographic history of Liverpool FC, and of course finished copies of the book will be available to buy. You can order This Is Anfield online now.
George Martin at the Playback launch in Sydney.
 23 October 2002
PLAYBACK LAUNCH A HUGE SUCCESS
George Martin's recent trip down under to launch his autobiography, Playback, was a resounding triumph. Sir George was guest speaker at a special 3-course dinner at the Westin Hotel in Sydney, Australia, on Friday 11 October 2002. Glenn Shorrock of Little River Band was Master of Ceremonies, and the Playback String Quartet performed Beatles music. The demand for copies of Playback subsequent to the launch has been overwhelming so please be aware that it may take some time before your copy is available. Contact Tessa for further details.
15 October 2002 MAXIMUM WHO IN THE MEDIAAndy Davis, editor of Record Collector, writes in the magazine's September issue: "Maximum Who is without equal... a photographic feast. It's meaty, beaty, big and bouncy and worth every penny of the £234 Genesis are asking for it." The book has also featured on BBC Online Music - Chris Jones, Online producer of the Classic Rock pages, writes, "Maximum Who... another in the long line of fabulous limited edition books from Genesis Publications. This is a stunning, sumptuous book - a top slice of Who memorabilia... Indispensable." Read the full review and win Maximum Who in BBC Online Music's competition. The book has been very well-received in the States as well: "Maximum Who - the incredible new Who photobook with rare and never-before-seen photos. A genuine piece of Who memorabilia", says Guitar World (September). Although the deluxe edition is now fully subscribed, regular copies are still available. 11 October 2002 BLINDS AND SHUTTERS - READY FOR CHRISTMAS!
'The most stupendous rock'n'roll picture book ever published.' USA Today Blinds & Shutters is simply our most famous book and widely regarded as a cult classic and publishing benchmark. The photographs of Michael Cooper provide a unique insider's view of the Sixties. He was a close friend of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles - and thus of everyone who was drawn to them. The book's consultant was Bill Wyman, has Forewords by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the list of 93 contributors includes Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Marianne Faithfull and Francis Bacon. Our busy book binders have scheduled the binding of a dozen copies of this highly sought after edition. Order your copy now and we can deliver it to you by the end of November. As the cornerstone of any rock'n'roll library, it would make the perfect Christmas gift. The next batch of Blinds and Shutters after this dozen will not be ready for delivery until the beginning of 2003. 11 October 2002 NEW ON SITE! - HALL OF FAMEWe have spent some time updating the Genesis website to include a section dedicated to our books that are fully-subscribed and out of print. The Hall of Fame catalogues the Genesis editions that have sold out - most recently Exile and the Deluxe editions of Moonage Daydream and Maximum Who - and is a useful guide to the company's history. Browse the Hall of Fame to see the artists, photographers and writers we have worked with on books in the past and take note of our predictions for which editions will be the next to join The Hall of Fame.7 October 2002 PLAYBACK DETAILS ON SITE NOWWe have just opened our page on George Martin's illustrated autobiography, Playback. This remarkable story of the man who discovered The Beatles is available now at the pre-publication rate. Deluxe copies in particular will sell very quickly. Go to our secure server to order your copy of Playback now.30 September 2002 RAVI SHANKAR FOUNDATIONGenesis is pleased to inform readers about The Ravi Shankar Foundation, which is creating a centre in New Delhi aimed to serve as a research and learning facility for classical Indian music and an archive of the vast works of Ravi Shankar and other masters. It is an enormous project which is completely dependent on the financial help of others and we therefore appeal to you on the Foundation's behalf for donations to this worthy venture. For further details and information on how to donate go here.30 September 2002 MAXIMUM WHO REVIEWED IN Q MAGAZINEMaximum Who hailed by Q Magazine as "a book to treasure" in the British October issue. "Here the group preen against a backdrop of shabby post-war Britain, looking like dandy aliens beamed in from another galaxy and drawing baffled glances from old men in trilbys, wondering if this is really what they fought the war for".26 September 2002 THIS IS ANFIELD: STEVE HALE AWARDED INTERNATIONAL MEDAL BY ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETYThe award-winning photographer Steve Hale, behind the new Genesis title This Is Anfield, has just received one of his most prestigious accolades to date. Already the holder of Kodak and Fuji awards, Sports Photographer of the Year 1989, Sports Picture of the Year 1993, to name a few, this month Steve was awarded the highly-acclaimed International Medal 2002 by The Royal Photographic Society. Genesis sends its congratulations to Steve, and are very pleased to reproduce here one of the images from the award-winning portfolio, which is also featured in This Is Anfield. The shot is of Liverpool FC's unrivalled home-crowd, taken on the last day of the Kop, Saturday 30th April 1994.
28 August 2002 GEORGE MARTIN TO LAUNCH PLAYBACK IN AUSTRALIA
Sir George Martin will be visiting Australia to launch his Genesis limited edition set PLAYBACK in October. The worldwide launch of Playback will be held at the Westin Hotel, Sydney, on 11th October. Playback will be George Martin's full autobiography. Illustrated throughout with photographs and documents including many from his own personal archive, Playback feature a by 50,000-word text by George Martin covering his entire life from birth to the present day, concentrating on his fifty years at the heart of the British music industry. The book, which will be bound in quarter leather, will be accompanied by a special 12-track CD which showcases his work as a producer, composer, arranger, conductor and performer, featuring nine unreleased recordings and three other personal favourites. All will be housed in a hinged solander box (pictured right). Playback is being issued in a limited edition of 2,000 copies, each copy personally signed by George Martin and individually numbered. We are also delighted to be able to announce that the book will feature Forewords by both Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. Customers can register their interest in a copy by emailing Genesis as usual. A preview page will be up on this site shortly. 22 August 2002 EXILE SOLD OUT!As predicted here in March this year, Dominique Tarle's highly successful book EXILE, the subject of the most wonderful reviews and subscriber acclaim over the past twelve months, is now completely sold out. All 2000 copies of this limited edition have been sold and no further copies will be available. If you have ordered this book and are still waiting for your copy, please note that we believe we should be able to fulfil all outstanding orders with the final copies of the edition. Thanks to all our subscribers who have helped made this book something of a publishing phenomenon. It is now ready to join the Genesis Hall of Fame, which will be online soon. 16 August 2002 IAN CALLAGHAN ON THIS IS ANFIELD PLUS STEVE HALE ON BBC RADIOLiverpool FC legend Ian Callaghan, after viewing proofs of This Is Anfield, our forthcoming limited edition history of the club, told Genesis: 'It's going to be unique, something that hasn't been done before. I am very much looking forward to getting a book. It will be something to keep and to pass on to the grandchildren.'Photographer Steve Hale, whose photographs grace the pages of This Is Anfield, talked about the book and the club on the 'Red Alert' show on BBC Radio Merseyside, on Friday 16th August at 7.45pm. Presenter Nigel Reed, described This Is Anfield as "This wonderful giant, leather-bound volume". 15 August 2002 GEORGE MARTIN VIDEO CLIP IN THE PICTURE HOUSEThe latest addition to the Picture House is a short clip of George Martin playing on piano his own first composition. A studio recording of this track will appear on the CD accompanying Playback, his limited edition book which will be launched in October 2002.15 August 2002 MAXIMUM WHO REVIEWED IN THE OBSERVERIn the 4 August issue of The Observer (the UK national Sunday paper), Sean O'Hagan reviewed MAXIMUM WHO alongside one of Colin Jones's great photos of John Entwistle from the book: 'One for the devotees of the band, or of that particular Sixties moment when pop started turning into rock and the possibilities therein seemed infinite and explosive... As lavish as Dominique Tarlé's EXILE... Entwistle's oddly illuminating asides accompany many of the photographs here.'15 August 2002 BOWIE'S HEATHEN NOMINATED FOR MERCURY MUSIC PRIZEBowie's new CD Heathen has been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, the high-profile award given annually for the best album of the year. The winner will be announced in mid-September.Meanwhile copies of MOONAGE DAYDREAM are still selling at a phenomenal rate. News of the book is being spread worldwide by the insert card included with copies of EMI's repackaged Ziggy Stardust CD. Well over a thousand copies have been sold already and we still haven't seen a finished copy yet - this should be in September. Sorry if you are waiting for your copy, but the strength of demand for Moonage Daydream does go to show why pre-ordering of Genesis limited editions is advised. 15 August 2002 MAXIMUM WHO COMPETITION WINNERThe winner of the MAXIMUM WHO competition was Christopher Clause from Canada. He wins a copy of Psychedelic Renegades. He supplied the correct answers to the following:
In 1968 The Who released a single featuring two Rolling Stones tracks in
support of Keith and Mick after their arrest and subsequent trial for
possession of drugs.
Q1: Name the two tracks.
We'll have another competition up on the site in due course. 15 August 2002 JIMI HENDRIXWe regret to announce that we will not now be publishing Jimi Hendrix: The Band of Gypsys. However Hendrix fans can look forward to Classic Hendrix, due to be published in mid-2003. Compiled by Ross Halfin, author of The Who Live and Maximum Who, this book will concentrate on Jimi's earlier career and include the work of several photographers. Register your interest in this forthcoming book by emailing us here.15 August 2002 
BOB MARLEY - UPDATEWork continues apace on Genesis Publications' tribute to Bob Marley and the list of contributors is growing rapidly. Bob's close friend Antonio 'Gilly' Gilbert recently gave a fantastic interview, ex-Wailers guitarist Junior Marvin has spoken to us about his time playing and recording with Marley - the 1977 European tour in particular, on which the photographer Kate Simon was present; and top producers Steve Jordan and David Kennedy have told us how Bob Marley affected their personal and professional lives. Featuring the unique images of Kate Simon, many of which are previously unpublished, the tribute to Bob Marley should be available early in 2003. Other contributors include ex-Clash frontman Joe Strummer, poet and songstress Patti Smith, film maker Don Letts, legendary singer/songwriter Taj Mahal and a whole host of Bob's friends and contemporaries. Keep logging on for more news and look out for the downloadable interview clips that will be appearing in The Picture House soon. For more info, or to register your interest, email robby@genesis-publications.com. 30 July 2002 TONY SHERIDAN - AND THE BEATLES IN GERMANYSince starting this website back in 1997, as well as providing details of all new books we publish, we have gradually been adding full details of our backlist titles. Genesis was founded in 1974, so we are still playing catch-up. As part of this process, we shall soon be opening a Hall of Fame section of the site, which will in time detail all our limited editions which are completely sold out. We are also now pleased to open a page with full details of one book which is still available: Beatles In Germany, a photographic portrait of the band's time in the country where they honed their skills in their early years. Copies are quarter-bound and presented in an innovative silk-screened perspex slipcase. Order yours now. To mark the book's appearance on the site, a new interview with Tony Sheridan is now online. Tony Sheridan knew the boys in Hamburg; indeed their first commercial release was as the backing band on Tony's 1961 single 'My Bonnie'. Ulf Kruger, editor of Beatles in Germany (to which Tony contributed the Afterword) interviewed him recently for this site. 30 July 2002 MAXIMUM WHO: DELUXE COPIES SOLD OUTAnd now we can announce that the 250 Deluxe copies of MAXIMUM WHO have sold out too. But don't worry, we still have regular copies available, those numbered 251 to 1500. Each of these is bound in quarter leather and housed in the slipcase, and is currently still priced at the pre-publication rate of £234 plus shipping.
30 July 2002
PREVIEW OF BINDING DESIGN FOR PLAYBACKWork on PLAYBACK, the Autobiography of George Martin, is almost complete. We shall be publishing this major limited edition, covering the life and career of the world's most celebrated music producer, in November 2002. Pictured alongside is a preview of the binding design for Playback, which will be a lavish book/CD box set. Please register your interest in this forthcoming title by emailing us now.22 July 2002 MOONAGE DAYDREAM DELUXE COPIES SOLD OUTDeluxe copies of MOONAGE DAYDREAM are sold out already. But don't worry, we still have plenty of regular copies available (though these are also selling like hot cakes), and these are also signed by both David Bowie and Mick Rock. The regular binding is pictured on the preview page.22 July 2002 MAXIMUM WHO IN MOJO MAGAZINEThere is a 6-page feature on MAXIMUM WHO in the latest (August) issue of Mojo magazine. All six photographers are included (a total of 13 shots in all) and there are selected quotations from the book.22 July 2002 TWO VIDEO CLIPS FOR MAXIMUM WHO ONLINE IN THE PICTURE HOUSEThe two most recent additions to our library of video clips on this site focus on our new book MAXIMUM WHO, featuring the book's compiler Ross Halfin and and one of the contributing photographers, Colin Jones, both talking about the book.16 July 2002 MOONAGE DAYDREAM IN HIGH DEMAND; FIRST COPIES DUE SEPTEMBERSix-page colour brochures are being mailed out this week to everyone on the advance mailing list for David Bowie & Mick Rock's lavish history of Ziggy Stardust. Due to the particularly lengthy production processes involved with Moonage Daydream (including printing on 14 different paper stocks), we expect to ship first copies out in September. Please do not delay your order however: we have already received a flood of orders and we expect Deluxe copies to sell out in advance of the first copies being shipped.1 July 2002 ORDER RAGA MALA TODAY AND GET IT PERSONALISED BY RAVI SHANKARRavi Shankar is currently touring and recording in London, providing a unique opportunity for Genesis subscribers. Genesis' Managing Editor, Oliver Craske will be meeting with Ravi who has offered to personalise editions of his book, Raga Mala. This is a once-only opportunity and you must order your copy before the 12th of July.29 June 2002 JOHN ENTWISTLEGenesis Publications is deeply saddened by the news of John Entwistle's death. John died at age 57 in a Las Vegas hotel room on the 27th of June, just as he and The Who were about to start a US tour.Apart from being one of the finest bass players ever, he was also a fine man. Always regarded as 'the quiet one' of the group, he happily and freely gave of his time to contribute to Maximum Who and it was both a pleasure and honour for us to work with him. Our thoughts and sympathies are with his friends, family and fans. He will be missed. 21 June 2002 MOONAGE DAYDREAM LAUNCHED IN THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH MAGAZINE (UK) - ORDERS NOW BEING TAKENAt last... advance orders are now being taken for our new book by David Bowie and Mick Rock, the ultimate history of Ziggy Stardust. MOONAGE DAYDREAM is being launched upon the UK this weekend on 23 June, when the Sunday Telegraph will run a 4-page feature on the book with excerpts from David Bowie's text and 12 of Mick Rock's photographs.Many of our customers have been waiting over a year since this book's publication date was first announced. Now, as planned, 30 years (and a few days...) after the original Ziggy Stardust album was launched, you can order your copy. You can read more on the full preview page on this site from where you can place your order on the secure server order form. We are accepting orders at the pre-publication price of GBP295/USD465, or GBP495/USD750 for the 250 Deluxe copies. The first copies are expected from our fine bookbinders in July. As with all Genesis limited editions, we shall receive copies in batches from the binders, and all copies ordered will be despatched by secure delivery service as soon as we receive them. Please note that with the pent-up demand for this title, and owing to the hand-craftsmanship involved with each copy, we are unlikely to be able to supply all copies ordered before the end of July. Please be patient if there is a delay before receiving your copy, but note also that orders are on a pre-publication discount basis. You are strongly advised to order now in order to avoid missing out. The Deluxe copies (numbered 1 to 250) in particular are likely to sell out quickly. 21 June THE WASHINGTON POST ACCLAIMS MOONAGE DAYDREAM AS A 'MASTERPIECE'.The Washington Post has given our new book by David Bowie and Mick Rock the very highest of praise. Writer Richard Harrington as follows: 'another limited edition masterpiece from England's Genesis Publications... draws from 6,000 images shot by Rock during Ziggy's 18-month reign on earth. It also features a 15,000-word text by Bowie, who's hardly ever gone on record -- certainly not at such length and with so much detail -- about Ziggy and the glam era.'David Bowie is certainly in the news at the moment. As well as launching Moonage Daydream, he released (to strong reviews) a new studio album titled Heathen on 10 June, he is curating the current Meltdown festival of music and arts in London and he seems ever-present in the press. Meanwhile on 8 July (16 July in USA) EMI will be issuing a special 30th anniversary edition of the Ziggy Stardust album, a 2-CD collectors' package featuring the original album on CD1, and 12 tracks associated with the Ziggy album on CD2, including a previously unreleased mix of the song 'Moonage Daydream'. 21 June 2002 MAXIMUM WHO PRESENTED TO THE BANDThe first copies of MAXIMUM WHO will be shipped to customers next week. The book is already in great demand, and Deluxe copies will be sold out very soon now.Ross Halfin, who compiled the book, presented copies of the book to Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Pete Townshend last week while they were rehearsing in London for their upcoming tour. All three were very pleased with the book and were good enough to sign Ross's own copy. Maximum Who will be the subject of a feature in the August issue of Mojo magazine. 21 June 2002 RAVI SHANKAR IN CONCERT AT ROYAL OPERA HOUSE.Ravi Shankar will be performing at London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden this Sunday 23 June. The 82-year old sitar maestro, who won his third Grammy Award earlier this year for the album Full Circle/Carnegie Hall, is only the second solo artist granted the honour of performing at the prestigious venue, which had previously only staged opera and ballet performances. The concert is sold out. Copies of his signed limited edition Raga Mala are still available from us.18 June 2002 SIX-STAR EXILE IN MUSIKEXPRESSExile was featured in the May 2002 issue of Musikexpress, 'Germany's biggest selling music magazine: 'Exile fixes the myth of the Stones with fascinating photos and and rich first hand accounts from all the people taking part in the story.' Exile is the only book reviewed to be awarded six stars.18 June 2002 NEW VIDEO CLIP IN THE PICTURE HOUSEIn the new short movie clip available on this site, photographer Mick Rock is filmed signing copies of his Syd Barrett book Psychedelic Renegades.13 June 2002 BOB MARLEY - A LIMITED EDITION TRIBUTEWe're pleased to announce a major new publishing project for 2003; a limited edition tribute to the late reggae legend Bob Marley. It will feature Kate Simon's superb photography and text contributions from those who knew Marley as well as major musicians inspired by him - including his close friend Gilly, ex-Clash frontman Joe Strummer and Patti Smith. Produced to Genesis' typically high standards it will provide a superb visual record of Bob between his groundbreaking UK tour of 1975 and his untimely death in 1981; with friends and fellow musicians, on and off stage, in Europe and in Jamaica. More details will follow. To register your interest please email robby@genesis-publications.com.28 May 2002 THE GENESIS PICTURE HOUSEToday we open the Genesis Picture House, a section of the site which will feature free short video clips relating to our books and authors. We start with a short film of Mick Rock discussing our hugely successful recent title EXILE by his fellow photographer Dominique Tarlé. More movies will be added over the coming weeks and months. We welcome feedback.25 May 2002 MAXIMUM WHO NOW ON SALEOrders are now being taken for this new limited edition. Maximum Who features the finest photographs of The Who in the Sixties, selected by Ross Halfin, who compiled our previous acclaimed Who book, The Who Live (now sold out). Also for the first time in one book, there is text by Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Pete Townshend. Maximum Who has now been printed, and bound copies should be despatched in July. Copies are available now at the pre-publication rate. The 250 Deluxe copies were signed by Roger Daltrey in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, and we expect these Deluxe copies in particular to sell out very quickly indeed. Full details of Maximum Who are now on the site, and you can place your order, as always, on our secure order form.25 May 2002 QUEEN WILL ROCK YOULast week saw the opening of the new West End musical by Queen and Ben Elton, We Will Rock You, which is sold out for weeks ahead. With Queen in the news we have been experiencing a surge of advance interest in our forthcoming book featuring Mick Rock's photographs, Killer Queen, which will be published this autumn. Brian May has written the Foreword and further commentary text. Two pages on the site present full information and excerpts from the book, and you can join the advance mailing list too.25 May 2002 HOULLIER SIGNS FOR GENESISGérard Houllier, manager of Liverpool Football Club, has agreed to sign the 250 Deluxe copies of our limited edition history of the club, This Is Anfield. He has also provided text. The book will be published early next season and promises to be a sensation in the history of sports publishing. To make sure you secure your copy (Deluxe or Regular), you can pre-order it now.25 May 2002 REVIEWS SECTION OPENS - WITH MORE REVIEWS OF EXILE & PSYCHEDELIC RENEGADESWe have just opened a new Reviews Section on the site which will archive reviews for each book. It begins with those for the recent Psychedelic Renegades and for Exile which has been the subject of a phenomenal amount of coverage. We'll continue to list new reviews here on the News Page, while archiving them all in the Reviews Section too. While on the subject, reviews are still appearing for Exile. A pile of knockout French cuttings arrived this week: Marie Claire wrote that 'Dominique Tarlé waited until he found the best publisher, the English Genesis, before publishing his sublime images - sublime because they do not trick, and they make this album a unique case in the history of showbiz.' According to Nice-Matin, 'The expression "worth its weight in gold" applies in every sense to Exile (the book). Marvel of marvels as a photographic book, with its pages edged in gold, it weighs a good two kilos...' The popular French magazine VSD described 'a sumptuous book which, thirty years after, reunites nearly three hundred of these photos, of which many are unpublished. Tarlé was part of the family and captured the Stones as no one had captured a rock group (or any artist) before and as no one will evidently be able to capture them again.' Dominique also wrote an 8-page photo-feature on the book in the French photographic magazine De L'Air. In Nashville Scene on 24 January, Diann Blakely wrote tht 'Exile is not only invaluable but also the work of a genius... Tarlé's powerful photographs embody the spirit of the album, rendering in a different form the same story that the music sings: one of dislocation, intimacy, collaboration, death and survival.' Exile was also featured in Japan's Asahi Shimbun on 26 March, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on 8 April, Denmark's Ekstra Bladet on 28 April and The Northern Echo back in February. Meanwhile Psychedelic Renegades received a 4-star rating in Q magazine which described how it 'captures the sheer sadness of its unpredictable subject's slow retreat into the self... the pictures are stunningly sharp.' 25 May 2002 THE GENESIS PICTURE HOUSE - COMING SOON.We shall soon be showing short video clips on this site relating to our books. Watch this space.26 March 2002 MAXIMUM WHO OFF TO PRESSMAXIMUM WHO: THE WHO IN THE SIXTIES has now gone into production. We expect to start taking advance orders in April/May. This new limited edition volume has been compiled by Ross Halfin and features the finest photographs of the band in their early years. For the first time in one book, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle have provided text on The Who. Further text contributions by many of the band's close associates. Full details should be on the site next month, when we shall also be posting out brochures. To register your interest please email robby@genesis-publications.com.26 March 2002 EXILE - DON'T DELAY YOUR ORDER.Exile was published late last year in a limited edition of 2000 copies. Now there are fewer than 500 copies left. This book has been the subject of numerous fabulous reviews. More are coming soon, including Rolling Stone magazine (USA), Asahi Shimbun (Japan), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Germany) and Ekstra Bladet (Denmark). We can confidently predict that this book will be selling out before long. After that, it will not be reprinted and so no more copies will be available. So don't delay your order.26 March 2002 EXILE - 'Irresistible' to Q magazineEXILE was given a maximum 5-star rating in a review titled BLISSFUL in the April 2002 issue of Q magazine. Mark Blake writes that Dominique Tarlé's pictures 'provide an irresistible collage of the group's golden era: lay jamming sessions, a distractingly beautiful Anita Pallenberg, boat trips around the harbour and Richard's cool reclamation of what are, quite clearly, pyjama pants.'.While on the subject, I realised that I forgot to mention Exile's appearance a couple of months back in a special issue of Q magazine dedicated to 'The 100 Greatest Rock'n'Roll Photographs.' Dominique Tarlé's photograph of Keith Richards and Gram Parsons at Villa Nellcote, which appears in the book, was no. 23 in the list. 26 March 2002 EXILE - Irrésistible aux Français aussiExile also graces the pages of the current (April2002) issue of France's Jukebox Magazine. Excerpts from the review by Jacques LeBlanc:'Il sait se faire discret pour mieux les honorer, entrant dans leur saga pour en restituer des moments de grâce... Au detour de chaque page, ce livre, de chevet, se revèle un pavé d'une incroyable densité, qui permet de saisir toutes le saveurs cachées dans le vinyle de Exile on Main Street... Ces pages nous font toucher de près une époque magique. Dominique Tarlé a pris un soin extrême dans la reproduction des tirages originaux afin d'être digne des plus grands ouvrages d'art. Enfin la qualité des textes qui accompnagnent ces clichés en noir & blanc et en couleurs et la maquette font de Exile un livre exceptionnel, capable de combler le fan le plus exigeant des Rolling Stones.' Translation follows by Oliver Craske, with due apologies to M. LeBlanc for massacring his style: 'He [Dominique Tarlé] knew how to make himself discreet in order to honour them better, entering into their life to realise from it these moments of grace... With the turn of each page, this bedside book turns out to be a paving stone of unbelievable density, which allows us to grasp all the flavours hidden in the vinyl of Exile on Main St... These pages bring us close to a magical era. Dominique Tarlé has taken enormous care with the printing of the original images so that they are worthy of the greatest works of art. And the quality of the texts which accompany these black and white and colour shots and the production make Exile an exceptional book, capable of satisfying the most demanding Rolling Stones fan.'  17 March 2002
WHEN DAVID MET MICK...Today is the 30th anniversary of the first meeting between David Bowie and Mick Rock, backstage at Birmingham Town Hall in 1972. Pictures that Mick took that evening, both backstage and onstage, will be included in MOONAGE DAYDREAM, the signed limited edition book they are co-authoring. MOONAGE DAYDREAM is nearing conclusion and is on track for publication in June 2002. Meanwhile Mick Rock has been at Genesis in the past week, working on the book.17 March 2002 SYD BARRETT COMPETITION WINNERWhile Mick Rock was working at Genesis, he also drew the winning entry in our Syd Barrett competition. We received 262 correct entries, and the lucky winner is JoDee Wells from Clinton, Iowa, USA. JoDee wins the signed photographic print of Syd Barrett which Mick is kindly providing.The correct answers to the competition were:
2 Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge; 3. Stars; 4. Pink Anderson and Floyd Council; 5. Let's Roll Another One. Thanks to all who entered. 17 March 2002 REVIEWS OF PSYCHEDELIC RENEGADESMick Rock's new book of Syd Barrett photographs was reviewed in the 15 February 2002 edition of Il Venerdi, the weekend magazine of Italy's national newspaper La Repubblica: 'Among all the whirling myths surrounding Syd Barrett, Mick Rock's book is a fixed point. A snapshot through images and eye-witness accounts of a golden age which will never return.'Andy Davis wrote in the March 2002 issue of Record Collector: 'Full marks to Genesis Publications for pulling off this spectacular coup ... this is the one book about himself that Syd Barrett is likely to read.' Bill Buckley, interviewing Mick Rock on BBC Southern Counties Radio, acclaimed a 'huge, heavy and sumptuous book... the pictures are wonderful, there's no two ways about it.' 17 March 2002 EXILE in NEW YORK TIMES, FORBES MAGAZINE, AND ON BBC RADIO SCOTLANDEXILE was the subject of a New York Times magazine feature entitled Gimme Tax Shelter on 10 March. More details to follow soon.It was also discussed by Brian Morton and Andrew Male on BBC Radio Scotland on 19 February. Brian Morton described it as 'a quite magnificent piece of work... Dominique Tarlé captures the mood around the making of the album extremely well... he really gets behind the thinking that went into that album.' Meanwhile in the Spring 2002 issue of the major US magazine Forbes FYI, Lorraine Korman wrote the following review. Moving Pictures Exile: The Making of Exile on Main St. The Beatles had Abbey Road Studios; Elton John had his Honky Château, but no studio had the mystery or the aloof cachet of the Villa Nellcôte, where the Rolling Stones recorded what some consider to be their finest album, Exile On Main St. This lavish new book exquisitely captures that moment in time - the steamy summer of 1971 - when high society, showbiz, youth culture and the underworld all became one fabulous decadent mélange. At least, that's how it looked from the outside. Judging from the photos in Exile, it's pretty much how it felt on the inside, too. Intrepid photographer Dominique Tarlé bunked up for four months at Nellcôte, on the French Riviera, which the Stones' guitarist/heart-and-soul/hoodlum manqué Keith Richards rented when he and the other Stones fled England for tax reasons. His pictures, accompanied by frank, surprisingly lucid remembrances from those who were there, document the record's painstaking birth in Nellcôte's dank, hot basement, and the parade of fellow rock stars, drug dealers, girlfriends, session players, hangers-on and children who floated into the villa and out again. Unlike the pop cyborgs that dominate the music industry today, these people all seem to have had one hell of a good time. 26 February 2002 Roger Waters Tour DatesPink Floyd founder Roger Waters begins his 'In The Flesh' World Tour on 27 February in Cape Town. After taking in Africa, South and Central America, Japan, South East Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and Europe East and West, it finishes up four months later in London. For full tour dates check the Official tour site or Roger Waters's website.26 February 2002 Klaus Voormann - A Paintbrush Full Of MusicA new TV documentary 'Klaus Voormann - A Paintbrush Full Of Music' was broadcast on 8 February by Swedish TV (dir. Rolf Hammarlund). Remember we still have copies of Klaus's book Hamburg Days as well as fine limited edition prints of his paintings.18 February 2002 Exile reviewed in issue no. 100 (March 2002) of Mojo magazine.
Rock's most decadent house party: the evidence. By Andrew Male. Limited-edition, gold-edged photographic record of rock 'n' roll's most notorious decadent house party and the classic double album it spawned. It all begins so cinematically: a ragged rock band in exile, sheltering, sweltering under the eaves of a rambling, crumbling, once elegant white mansion in the South of France, perched high on the cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean. The immense Villa Nellcôte, crammed with chandeliers, staffed by drug dealers, cut off from the world outside by its big black gates and jungle grounds, was the backdrop to one of the great rock 'n' roll stories - one which starts out with the making of an album and turns into rock's longest, most decadent house party, with sub-plots like society weddings, Nazis, heroin, diamonds, fist-fights, robberies, and a second exile, the French police on their tail. And what a glorious cast of characters this story has. The narcissistic Jagger, immaculately turned out even in the grubby basement that has been requisitioned as a recording studio; Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, poker-faced, cool; Gram Parsons, stoned and trouserless; Mick Taylor with his serious baby-face, Paul and Linda; the impossibly beautiful Anita Pallenberg. The obvious star is, of course, Keef - stoned, magnificently dissipated, 'appy, wiv 'is crooked teef, his woman, his kid and his drugs. Here he is, showing Gram some chords on the balustraded patio, clutching his son Marlon to his chest, writing at the piano, or grinning like an anorexic Buddha in a dog basket in the big black-and-white opposite the foreword he wrote for this amazing record of an amazing time. Dominique Tarlé's photographic documentary of the recording of Exile On Main Street (as featured in MOJO 98) is a thing of ruined beauty - like the stills from a lost movie or a fantastical photo-album glimpsed in a brief opium dream of out-of-grasp rock stardom. And yet, it's all true. Tarlé, a young French rock photographer who was living in London when the immigration department told him he had to leave the country at the same time as the Stones' tax advisers were telling them the very same thing, wound up joining them through the summer of '71 in Keith and Anita's mansion. 'I was rarely aware that he was working,' writes Keith, 'WHICH IS RARE!' That 'quality', as Keith calls it, 'of blending into the furniture' resulted in some remarkably candid shots, which are supplemented with blow-by-blow comments from the culprits themselves: the Stones, their sidemen, friends, family, crew and hangers-on. They fill in the details - the near electrocutions in the basement studio, John Lennon paying a visit and puking on the stairs, Anita Pallenberg going out of her mind trying to host this never-ending party. Like Borges' Book Of Sand, you'll keep discovering ravishing pictures and strange tales long after the first read is over - Cap'n Keef, in cable-knit sweater on the prow of 'The Mandrax'; the whole gang reading Sunday papers on the steps of the villa; a rabbit in a guitar case. Even the snaps of a topless Bill Wyman playing croquet possess a curious period-charm. There is more than enough here to keep you wilfully lost in this magic kingdom of ravaged rock lords for weeks on end. But it's the photos that you'll keep coming back to. Whether in washed-out Kodachrome or black-and-white, this is a magnificent record of high rock'n'roll ruin. Yes, it does cost a hell of a lot. But aren't there some kinds of pleasure you're meant to pay a price for? 13 February 2002 IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO TODAY...On 13 February 1962 Brian Epstein, trying to find a record deal for his band The Beatles, met George Martin, then head of Parlophone Records, for the first time. George Martin will be telling his story in Playback, due from Genesis later this year. [more details]6 February 2002 SYD BARRETT COMPETITIONWin a photograph of Syd Barrett signed and personalised by photographer Mick Rock. Competition is now open and runs till 28 February. Details are on the Syd Barrett competition page [NOW CLOSED]6 February 2002 YET MORE REVIEWS OF EXILEWe have had so many reviews of this book of Dominique Tarlé's beautiful photographs. We'll have to archive these all together on a separate page soon. For now here are some you may have missed recently:'An absolute marvel' - Rock & Folk (France), February 2002. 'Most extravagant book to come out in recent months... stunning black and white photography... weighs about the same as a small donkey.' - Time Out (London), 16 January. The Independent (UK) also featured a different picture from the book on each of 24, 26 and 29 December 2001. Copies of Exile are still available. |
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