Jarvis Cocker's Picks
As the Guest Author opening the Music Department in our new Charing Cross Road flagship store, Jarvis Cocker shares some of his favourite books with us. 'It's impossible to write about music' - I once began an interview with a music journalist with this statement. He probably thought that I was being wilfully confrontational but I was really trying to sympathise with his position of trying to define something that can never be adequately defined due to its essential nature. It's nothing to do with the skill of the writer - it's just an enterprise that is always doomed to failure. Sorry. That said, there have been some pretty noble failures...
