My book was published a year ago today. Coincidentally, I've just seen a review of it in the Times Literary Supplement - an honour. It's...

'One Year in UK pop told with obsessional verve'. Yep, I'll take that. 'Fan-driven account [...] rather than theoretical overview'. I'll...

Happy to announce that 1984 is now also available through my favourite mail-order outlet, Burning Shed. You can still order direct from...

Two 1984 books in one feature - in this case Swedish national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. The other 1984 book is the US-focussed Can't...

Happy to see very positive review of my 1984 book in January's issue of Record Collector. "...warm and well-written - Elliot knows his...

1984 book makes the Hot List in Classic Pop's February issue.

Nice to see my book in the new issue of Electronic Sound. And happy & humbled that it made #7 in Books of the Year amidst such...

The book is published today. 500 artists, 28 chapters, 390 pages, 205 photos. It's been a labour of love, roughly 5 years in the making...

Yesterday evening, BBC Radio Two's Gary Davies gave my book a plug on his Sounds of the 80s show. "A brilliant read" he said. Why thank...

I've created a playlist of 100 songs from 1984. They're mainly singles with the occasional B-side or album track., (* British or UK-based...

After some intense final editing, indexing, sorting out some formatting issues (ever tried putting endnotes before the index?),...

Three weeks to go until 1984 goes to print and then another three weeks until publication. Final editing, moving pictures around, fixing...

Why is the upcoming Wonder Woman film set in 1984? Is it a significant year or something? Apparently much of it was shot in Britain. Does...

This month, 36 years ago, the Michael Radford-directed, Virgin-produced film version of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four was released. It...

Arguably, 1984 was British rock and pop’s most politicised year, before or since. Whether it was responding to unemployment,...

This week, Wolfgang sent me designs for my 1984 book. We've known each other for 40 years (having met thanks to one of our musical...