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|author=Peter Doggett
|title= Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop
|rating=5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary= For many of us, it must be difficult to imagine a life without recorded music. Millions of us must have grown up with, even to, a very varied soundtrack consisting of one genre after another. In this book, Peter Doggett takes a marvellous broad sweep through the history of popular music from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day, from wax cylinders to streaming services. A rather maudlin ditty 'After The Ball', by Charles K. Harris, is regarded as the first modern popular song (well, it was modern in 1891) – the first of millions.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184792218X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author= Harlan Coben
|summary= Depending on the curiosity level of your child, you may start to hate the word why. Why is the sky blue? Why do some elephants have bigger ears than others? Why, why, why, why! I can suggest to most parents that they make something up that sounds vaguely intelligent. The problem is that kids are canny little things. So, rather than trying to download the entirety of the internet into your head, get your child their own first encyclopaedia, something like ''My Encyclopedia of Very Important Things''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241224934</amazonuk>
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