Richard Evans has worked in the music industry for more than 30 years and with Erasure for over a decade. In 2002 he set up www.thisisnotretro.com, a website dedicated to reporting the latest news from the bands and artists who helped define the 80s.

His previous book was Remember the Eighties. His new book is Listening to the Music the Machines Make: The Electronic Pop Revolution 1978-1983.

Richard is based in Dorset where he lives in perpetual fear of being asked what his favourite record is.

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Listening to the Music the Machines Make is the revolutionary story of electronic pop from 1978 to 1983, a true golden age of music.

This definitive account explores how krautrock, disco, glam rock and punk inspired a new generation to rip up the rulebook and venture toward a new frontier of electronic music - one that laid the foundations for Hip-Hop, house, techno and beyond.

Including an extensive collection of archive images throughout, Richard Evans's kaleidoscopic narrative draws on years of research, a plethora of archive press materials and the input of key figures, including Vince Clarke (Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure), Martyn Ware (The Human League, B.E.F., Heaven 17) and Daniel Miller (The Normal, Mute Records).

From the gritty and experimental to the camp and theatrical, this book charts the careers and impact of electronic pop's earliest innovators and luminaries, from Devo, The Normal, Telex and Cabaret Voltaire to Soft Cell, Gary Numan, OMD, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode.