Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get under our skin… Songbook is Nick Hornby's labor of love. For example, Paypal can only be processed through a direct sale because ABEBooks does NOT accept Paypal payments, NO exceptions."All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do." -Nick Hornby, from Songbook
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Precedes and should not be confused with the Softcover Edition. One of the best books on popular music ever written in our time. The author's collection of essays and prose-poems on music.
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