With it increasingly out in the open though, hopefully more and more people contribute to the healing for this way of life. Sources mined from his own past interviews as well as those directly tied to the writing of this book. As a lifelong music lover, I have often been saddened by the death of yet another musician, often a much admired frontman but never really given it a lot if thought. With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics.

Finally, a book about the music industry that tells the truth … a visceral examination of art, drugs, mental health and music.Bodies relates a number of incidents where an artist is pushed or feels impelled to work despite being clearly unwell, sometimes with terrible consequences. Listen to the Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross-produced songs Even It Out and North, taken from Fever Ray’s recent-released album Radical Romantics.

Winwood makes a compelling argument and overturns some long-held notions about “rock and roll excess” by deftly tying together a vast amount of information . Definitely not for the faint hearted with some of the details, but the brutal reality of how some people deal with being at the top of their chosen game, and how they chose to deal with the fame, not always in the most healthy way (including an awful insight into Lost Prophets ending). If you were under any delusions about how glamorous the music is , then this book will certainly make you think again, and maybe the ones on stage who seem to have it all aren't quite as lucky as we all think they are. I really enjoyed the author’s forays into memoir, especially the unbelievable and unjust experience with his dad. The book struggled to stick to the topic, and it didn't answer questions, only reaching one conclusion as the possible cause of addiction and death in music business.Much more than a touchline re- porter, Winwood also tells the tale of his own mental-health collapse following the shocking death of his father. It is like a government health warning but would help you enter with your eyes open and ready to protect yourself. The must-read music book of the year, now with a brand new chapter covering the death of Taylor Hawkins and his massive Wembley memorial concert. Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall).

Told in his relatable unpretentious northern tone, the book becomes a rock’n’roll version of James Grey’s slightly discredited A Million Little Pieces. The saga of Ian Watkins is, by some distance, the most shocking in Bodies, a book filled with shocking stories. I'm certainly more aware now of the huge pressures they face, I just wish they had been able to get support for their struggles. And there are those who are no longer with us, including Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington and Mark Lanegan, whose frailties would have been the same if they’d worked in offices rather than the world’s biggest stages, but their fates might have been different. It is also a book that touches on relationships between fathers and sons in a way that seems pleasantly tangential.

It should be a harrowing read, and it frequently is: that it doesn’t make you despair entirely is down to Winwood’s skill as a prose stylist. But life and death in music are much more than the febrile motions of drink and drugs, it is also the legal wranglings, the unspoken traditions and tribulations of bands trying to create and then survive. There's no real investigation into any of those individuals save one or two, and I get the impression those people would have encountered mental trauma and life changing episodes regardless of what career they found themselves in. Those encounters and much of the text within come with a blinkered, flashing red light that acts as a real warning about the dangers of the industry and anyone near to it.