With many thanks to Constable’s Andreas Campomar and Aitken Alexander’s Matthew Hamilton – major dudes and Dan fanatics both – for making this bodacious compendium happen. Thanks to Claire Chesser and Lucian Randall at Constable and to Mark Pringle and Tony Keys for sourcing pieces from the Rock’s Backpages archive. Thanks to Louise Stakem at Time Out for her assistance. Thanks to all the contributors to this anthology: Richard Cromelin, Daryl Easlea, Andy Gill, Mick Gold, Geoffrey Himes, Chris Ingham, Jonh Ingham, Dylan Jones, Mark Leviton, Gavin Martin, Charles Shaar Murray, Ian Penman, Bruce Pollock, Ira Robbins, Wayne Robins, Steven Rosen, Bud Scoppa, Fred Schruers, Sylvie Simmons, Rob Steen, Adam Sweeting, Chris Van Ness, Michael Watts, Chris Welch and Richard Williams. Also to Bill McCormick for granting permission to use the pieces by his late brother Ian MacDonald; Jim Smith for the Aja review by the late Richard C. Walls; Augusta Palmer for the piece by her late father Robert; and Dan Valentine for the piece by his late mother Penny.