........ foreword by Colin Pryce-Jones (The Rapiers)
* The most comprehensive work ever on the music of The Shadows with coverage of 572 recorded tracks spanning the years 1959 to 2004
* Handy compact size, attractive presentation at a bargain price
* A track-by-track run-down of the group's entire recorded work as it became commercially available, taking in anecdote and press reportage, musical history and personal reminiscences along with analysis and assessment both of individual songs and of the succession of primary albums
* Over 300 cover scans of analogue and digital product, many furnished with commentary on various aspects of the group's evolving worldwide discography
* An Introduction defining the place of the Shadows in the development of popular music and rewriting rewritten history by exploding the fiction of a faceless musical wasteland in the years running up to the advent of The Beatles
* Supplementary information on numbers performed onstage or for radio/ television but never recorded for official release; on titles recorded for Radio Luxembourg and for BBC Radio; and an translation into English of a set of Japanese sleeve notes from 1962
* Full index of titles for easy reference
