Guinness World Records: British Hit Singles (16th Edition) - David Roberts

This book was the 16th edition of this series and covers singles released up until 2002. We have a few editions of this book in our house being a bit of a music addict it became a "must" on the christmas list. For anyone who ist interested in music trivia and music charts this book is ideal. The book is made up of a number of bits. The main bulk of it is are 2 A-Z listing of all singles, one organised by song title and one organised by artist. However there are a few other sections that are unique to each edition. This one includes the following: Chart Milestones - looking back over 50 years of the charts and ...  Read the complete review

Some things make you feel that time is slipping by too fast? the ?Guiness World Records British Hit Singles? book is one such thing? I owned my first copy in 1985 (5th edition) in the good old days when a new issue was published every two years and it went by the guise of ?Guiness Book of British Hit Singles?, featuring an embossed gold vinyl disc on the cover. Now it?s an annual affair and not a paper-sleeved disc in sight. This is the 16th edition, published in 2003. In a nutshell it gives a comprehensive account of British chart history since its conception in 1952 up to the end of 2002. ...  Read the complete review