Bruce Lindsay - Shellac and Swing!: A Social History of the Gramophone in Britain

I contacted many people while writing this book and almost without exception they responded with help, support or advice. I have tried as much as possible to take on board the sage advice I was given and I have incorporated numerous insights gained from interviews into the text.

Dave Guttridge (a.k.a. DJ78) and Professor Steve Baker deserve particular thanks for being with me from the start, freely giving me their thoughts and insights, usually in some of Norwichs finest coffee houses. A big Thank You goes to Mike and Liz Delf, first-generation rock n roll fans, for their stories and their Dansette. I would also like to thank the following people, whose contributions helped me to make sense of what turned out to be a far more complicated story than I first imagined: Paul Buck, Greg Butler, Garth Cartwright, Catherine Clarke, Michael Cumella, Tony Cleary, Phil Dravec-Delf, Lewis Durham, Jenny Hammerton (of the Shellac Sisters), Francesco Martinelli, Courtney Pine CBE, Christopher Proudfoot, Karla Richards (a.k.a. Karla Chameleon), Joel Schlemowitz, Peter Wilson (a.k.a. Duke Special), Lucy Wright PhD. My thanks also go to the staff at the Accademia Nazionale del Jazz, Siena; Kate OBrien and colleagues at the BBC Written Archive; Future Radio; the staff of the History of Advertising Trust; Graeme Clarke and colleagues at Erddig, Bethan Partridge and colleagues at Felbrigg Hall and Helen Taylor, House Steward at Polesden Lacey (all properties in the care of the National Trust); Gemma Layton and Daniel Brine at the Norfolk and Norwich Festival; the staff of the Norfolk Record Office; Radio Norfolk; the volunteers at the RAF Oulton Museum at Blickling; and Jay Slater and the team at Fonthill Media.

As always, if there are any mistakes or inaccuracies to be found in the text, the fault lies with me alone, however much I wish that this was not the case.