The greatest British pop singer who never made a hit single

This is a magnificent book, regardless of whether the reader knows who it is about. I state this bluntly at the outset because I am keenly aware that many more people are ignorant of Lawrence’s career and achievements in the field of popular music than will be familiar with them; and that I will need to use up a significant number of words attempting to explain a figure who has repeatedly proven inexplicable to the public at large. So here goes…

Lawrence Hayward may be the greatest British pop star never to have enjoyed a hit single. He emerged from the Birmingham suburbs in the early 1980s as the mononymous frontman of the indie band Felt, who released ten singles and ten albums in ten years before calling it quits, just as Lawrence had planned they would. Several of these records were truly magical, but none of them bothered the charts.