Author Website: https://unbound.com/books/dear-mr-pop-star/
Authors: Derek and Dave Philpott are the noms de plume of two ordinary members of the public, working with help from a worldwide social networking community.
Dear Mr. Pop Star Book links: https://unbound.com/books/dear-mr-pop-star/
A collection of hilarious letters to iconic pop and rock stars with fantastic in-on-the-joke replies from the artists themselves: Eurythmics, Heaven 17, Deep Purple, Devo, Dr. Hook and many, many more…
For more than a decade, Derek Philpott and his son, Dave, have been writing deliberately deranged letters to pop stars from the 1960s to the 90s to take issue with the lyrics of some of their best-known songs. They miss the point as often as they hit it.
But then, to their great surprise, the pop stars started writing back...
Dear Mr Pop Star contains 100 of Derek and Dave's greatest hits, including correspondence with Katrina and the Waves, Tears for Fears, Squeeze, The Housemartins, Suzi Quatro, Devo, Deep Purple, Nik Kershaw, T’Pau, Human League, Eurythmics, Wang Chung, EMF, Mott the Hoople, Heaven 17, Jesus Jones, Johnny Hates Jazz, Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine, Chesney Hawkes and many, many more.
Review from Amy’s Bookshelf Reviews:
“5 Stars A great collection of letters
I was immediately interested in this collection as I read the introduction to the book. It's a collection of letters (to and from) bands or relations to bands answering the questions of how they picked their name, interests in the story behind the songs, among other queries, and the responses are wonderful. It seemed to take quite a journey to get the letters to the right people who would answer. I loved reading all the letters, especially the "to" letters. Now, I was not familiar with every single band or group that a letter was written to, but it didn't matter. I enjoyed each letter. I liked how the book was put together, and the graphics of the "to" letters made it feel more "letter-like." Just as I thought "this" was my favorite letter, I read another one!”