The Pop Fans Charts Book: Every printed and broadcast chart - 1956 to 1969

You and your friends are pop music fans. In January 1958, you would have rushed to the newsagent to buy the latest edition of your favourite music paper. It could have been the 'New Musical Express', 'Record Mirror' or Melody Maker - which ever it was you just had to find out if Elvis had gone straight into the charts at Number 1.

Five years later, these same papers reported the news that The Beatles had their first number 1 with 'Please Please Me'. These were exciting times to be a music fan.

Sunday afternoons were when you listened to Alan Freeman on 'Pick of the Pops' as he counted down the charts. If that wasn't enough, you could tune to Radio Luxembourg on 208 meters to hear Keith Fordyce, Barry Alldis, Don Wardell or Paul Burnett give their version of the story.

In this book for the very first time, you can see how each of the music papers and the radio recorded the music milestones of the classic years of pop - 1956 to 1969.