Comments on 'Rock Family Trees'

Pete Frame’s Rock Family Trees are up there with the Bayeux Tapestry.
Kris Needs, Shindig magazine

It’s stating the obvious maybe but the genius of Pete’s family trees is that by developing and enhancing a single, simple concept with a peerless artistic flourish he has solved the problem of how to convey a mass of complex information in a way that educates, illuminates and entertains whilst avoiding very smartly the deadly pitfall of monotonous historical documentation.
Andy Childs, Caught By The River

There’s simply no other chronicle in music so consummately researched or painstakingly executed . . .
welcome back to the music fanatic’s oldest friend.
Record Collector

Rock history would not look the same without Pete Frame’s family trees. His painstaking research marks out the veins that linked many famous strands of rock’s lifeblood.
Radio Times

For a musician, appearing in one of Frame’s family trees is the ultimate accolade.
Bruce Dessau, Time Out

His meticulous constructions are flavoured by a love of the music, human curiosity, a powerful critical sensibility and, in the case of some charts, righteous indignation about the commercialisation and dilution of authentic music.
John L Walters, Eye, The International Review of Graphic Design

Frame is probably the world's foremost chronicler of rock history.
The Observer
 
Frame's Rock Family Trees are a class act, a loving archival trawl
through rock's minutiae at once absurdly detailed and fantastically well observed.
The Independent
 
Pete Frame is better at what he does than all the rest of us combined.
Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle
 
... almost lunatic scholarship ...
John Peel

A true doyen recorder of the music scene  fRoots

It's not only the vital facts but the asides and gentle ramblings that make his work such a pleasure to peruse.  Music Week

A lasting contribution to rock scholarship.  History of Rock

His eccentricity is as genuine as his enthusiasm.  Sounds

The sheer volume of work and detail involved must make it seem like a monumental folly to the uninitiated, but likewise make it utterly absorbing to the fanatic.  NME

Incredibly detailed and often incredibly funny. Smash Hits

There is something Shakespearian in his blunt ordinariness and decency, and in his dedication.
The Sunday Times

Get your hands on this book and you might not want to put it down.  Goldmine

A wonderful, heroic book ...
Frame is the only true pop lunatic to have kept his sanity and his sense of humour.
Rolling Stone

What makes Frame such an entertaining author is his endearing and perceptive turn of phrase ... another dazzling achievement in scholarship from rock's romantic chronicler. 
The Sunday Telegraph

Today, I would only refer to anything Pete Frame does. His is the standard to which we should all aspire.
Colin Larkin, editor, OUP Encyclopedia of Popular Music

Frame should have ended up on some New Year's honours list for his Rock Family Trees contribution alone.
Fred Dellar, Mojo

The world's most eminent rock genealogist.  Irish Times

Pete Frame is mad.  Time Out