PositiveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)Higgs’s thesis, that the Beatles and James Bond (\'love and death … the two central opposing drives in the human psyche\'), symbolized this conflict, is obviously reductive, though also persuasive by the time we’ve finished reading Love and Let Die ... Other writers have investigated the Beatles and Bond in the light of their contrasting relationship with the British establishment... but few have done so with such an appetite for the minutiae. No motif is too insignificant for Higgs ... Love and Let Die is an exhaustive, entertaining piece of cultural history, as well as an engrossing re-telling of the story of two brands that have dominated the British psyche for the past sixty years.
Will Sergeant
RaveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)Sergeant vividly evokes a troubled childhood on a council estate in Melling, a satellite village of Liverpool ... Elsewhere, Sergeant’s humour is darker ... He’s especially sharp on fashion...and on the excitement of raucous early concerts ... Fans of the band may be disappointed by the book’s curtailed timeframe, but Bunnyman is a fine, keenly observed memoir that offers moments of pure joy, such as Sergeant’s description of Eric’s and of its black-clad regular Pete Burns as \'a demon that’s got on the wrong bus and just popped into town for some bits\'.
