Word In Your Attic Special
Daniel Rachel: kick-started by the Beatles on quarter-inch tape Author and friend of the pod Daniel Rachel on his upcoming 2-Tone book, the Stones in the Czechoslovakia, how Lee Mavers cooks sausages, nicking albums, a [...]
Paperback publication of Don’t Look Back in Anger March 2021
A METRO & EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A grade, A list oral history... SUNDAY TIMES (MUST READ) 'A rollicking read…. MAIL ON SUNDAY Tony Blair, Noel Gallagher, Damon Albarn, Tracey Emin, Irvine Welsh [...]
Book of the Year: Evening Standard and Metro
Don’t Look Back in Anger has been named A Book of the Year by the Evening Standard and Metro. Reviewing the book in the Evening Standard., Nick Curtis wrote, ‘Daniel Rachel’s oral history of Cool Britannia [...]
An Evening Standard Book of the Year
Don't Look Back in Anger has been named as a Book of the Year by the Evening Standard. Reviewing the book, Nick Curtis wrote, 'Daniel Rachel’s oral history of Cool Britannia made me miss the [...]
BBC Radio 5 Live
'A positive peroid of patriotism, and it's very different from nationalism.' Watch Daniel on BBC Radio 5 Live talking to Chris Warburton about Don't Look Back in Anger: the rise & fall of Cool Britannia [...]
Tony Blair reading Don’t Look Back in Anger
I very much enjoyed reminiscing with Daniel Rachel about the 90s and the extraordinarily rich and diverse period for British culture. The political landscape was also interesting as I recall! Congratulations Daniel on a great [...]
BBC 5 Live with Chris Warburton
Interview with Daniel Rachel at 12.30pm including an exclusive audio extrct from Don't Look Back in Anger from Tony Blair Lisetn again: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008rcb
BBC RADIO 4 Start the Week
Challenging conventions Antony Gormley talks to Tom Sutcliffe about his forthcoming major show at the Royal Academy. The sculptor returns to his enduring interest in the inner dark space of the body and the body’s [...]
BBC 6 Music with Shaun Keaveny
Ep 186 - Author Daniel Rachel joins Shaun to chat Cool Britannia : Release Date 23 Sep 2019 Available for 22 days In the final hour author Daniel Rachel joins to chat about his new [...]
BBC Radio 4 in Four
Listen now The era when the nation came together One of the most creative and hedonistic periods of British culture was the nineties: the era of Cool Britannia, born in Thatcher’s Britain and flaunted by [...]
Word In Your Ear podcast
'We guarantee, this will change the way you think about the era you lived through.' David Hepworth 'Such a good speaker - precise and thoughtful and funny - and full of great theories and stories. [...]
New Statesman – ‘Moreishly readable’
BYJOHN NIVEN Viva forever: Geri Halliwell’s Union Jack dress came to epitomise the optimistic Nineties It was a time when we chose life. When football was coming home. When a new day was dawning, was [...]
Observer / Guardian Book of the Week
Don’t Look Back in Anger review – talking about cool Britannia Daniel Rachel’s entertaining oral history of the 1990s, featuring everyone from Tony Blair to Tracey Emin Kitty Empire @kittyempire666 Mon 26 Aug 2019 07.00 BST Tony Blair [...]
Sunday Times stunning review
BRITAIN Don’t Look Back in Anger by Daniel Rachel review — the fallacy of Cool Britannia An evocative oral history of the 1990s charts the rapid rise and grotesque fall of Britpop. Review by Victoria Segal Working the red, [...]
Mail on Sunday serialization
A feature lenght extract from the forthcoming Don't Look Back in Anger will feature in ths Mail on Sunday Event magazine this weekend.
Ranking Roger memoir rave reviews
There have been some wonderful reviews of I Just Can't Stop It: My Life in the Beat co-written with Daniel Rachel. Read the best of them below: '...extremely poignant.' MOJO 'Energy abounds' UNCUT 'A fitting [...]
I Just Can’t Stop It – Q Book of the Month
A wonderful **** review, in QMagazine for Ranking Roger's book. Victoria Segal writes: 'The chatty, unpretentious narrative documents pop's gleefully glamorous side, including kissing @Madonna "with tongues".
Proof copies for Don’t Look Back in Anger
CALLING ALL 90s KIDS Proofs of #DontLookBackInAnger have just dropped! Through 68 voices that epitomise the 90s, award-winning author DanielRachel has crafted an essential oral narrative of Cool Britannia DON’T LOOK BACK IN ANGERThe Rise [...]
Ranking Roger interview
In his first interview since discovering he has cancer, Ranking Roger discusses his illness with Daniel Rachel
I Just Can’t Stop It: My Life in the Beat
The autobiogrpaphy of Ranking Roger, co-written with Daniel Rachel, will be published by Omnibus in spring 2019
Summer smashes
In the year of the 40th anniversary of Rock Against Racism, join Daniel at a clutch talks, events, and festivals as well as his regular slot as guest contributor on BBC 5 LIve 'The Record [...]
Rock Against Racism 40th Anniversary
Carnival Against the Nazis To celebrate the 1978 Rock Against Racism Carnival Against the Nazis, the Migration Museum is hosting an exhibition of memorabillia until September 2018. In April, Daniel chaired an in-conversation with original [...]
David Bowie book
When Ziggy Played the Marquee features the photography of Terry o'Neil with text by Daniel Rachel. When Ziggy played The Marquee Club in Soho, London, in October 1973, most of those invited to the small venue [...]
Steve Lamacq Show BBC 6 Music
Daniel talks to Steve about his Good Day Bad Records sharing stories about his first single 'Too Much Too Young' by the Specials and a one-to-one performance with Bobby Gillespie (Primal Scream) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08xkzft Interview at [...]
Modcast special
In conversation with Annajoy David, Eddie Pillar and Dean Rudland