The Black Book
(Orion Publishing Group - 1993)


Lots of Elvis Presley references, thanks to the Heartbreak Cafe - plus the by now obligatory nods to the Stones etc.

 

 


Chapter One

The Beatles, Rolling Stones

Chapter Two
Elvis Presley ("Vegas Elvis")
Rolling Stones ("mid-period")

Chapter Four
(Unspecified LP) - Rolling Stones

Chapter Eleven
(Unspecified LP) - Patsy Cline

Chapter Twelve
The Heartbreak Cafe spawns various Elvis puns, including "Jailhouse Roquefort"!

Chapter Seventeen
Heard at "Edinburgh's least musical karaoke":
Hound Dog. Wooden Heart, Crying in the Chapel, Little Red Rooster, Band of Gold, King of the Road

Chapter Twenty-one
Let it Bleed (LP) - Rolling Stones

Chapter Twenty-two
Those Were the Days - Mary Hopkins
Heartbreak Hotel - Elvis Presley

Chapter Twenty-five
Lulu and the Luvvers (her backing band, apparently!)

Chapter Twenty-six
kd lang, Jesus & Mary Chain

Chapter Twenty-nine
Stones, the Doors, Janis Joplin, "very early" Pink Floyd