Music History, Rock & Pop, Barney Hoskyns

It is the great virtue of Across the Great Divide that Hoskyns has managed to make the less glamorous business of being a band come so alive. The attention to fluctuations in group chemistry... — Sunday Times More…

An indispensable compendium for Steely Dan fans -- Greeta Dayal — The Wire More…

Hoskyns impresses with the sheer weight of testimony he has amassed and the skill with which he has woven it into a tightly coiled and elegiac narrative — Sunday Times More…

A hilarious, chilling, thoroughly scabrous history of post-war pop music in Los Angeles... fascinating — Los Angeles Times More…