Foreword, Charlie Seaward . Introduction . Beginnings . Walter's Workshops
. 1980 Where is It? Well It's Not in Eastcote . 1981 The Dudes on Kensal
Road . 1982 It Was the Last Film I Ever Saw . 1983 Over My Dead Body . 1984
Who Wants to Buy Half a House in Oxford . 1985 You Know What, This Guy is
Going to Buy the Studio . 1986 There's a New Sheriff in Town . 1987 We Did
to Warhol What He Did to Bananas . 1988 Like Trying to Catch Lightning in a
Bottle . 1989 The Sort of a Place You Call in on Your Way to Fame . 1990
Drummy? He Was Always There . 1991 Trip Hop and Synth Riffs . 1992 Don't Go
Shoplifting at Virgin Records . 1993 Mind the Buzzcocks and How to Find Big
Good Angel . 1994 It's a Giant Blender . 1995 The Future is Medium . 1996
Sitar and Magic Stones. To Make the Sound More Magic . 1997 Everybody Needs
a Bosom for a Pillow . 1998 Learning from the Maestro . 1999 Blow Them
Away. Fly Them to the Moon . 2000 A Big Crane and the River of Fire . 2001
Have You Invented a Genre Lately? . 2002 The Cook and the Raconteur .
2003 From Havana, Con Calor . 2004 What's This? What Is Happening Here! .
2005 Things to Do When the Boss Is Asleep on the Sofa . 2006 He F***ing
Built Himself a Studio He Doesn't Fit in . 2007 Can You Send This Back to
Them Please? . 2008 Did You See Flash? . 2009 People the Music Industry's
Romance is Built on . 2010 3 Million Synthesisers Deep . 2011 Facts, Fun
and Fusion . 2012 A Decapitated Award. And Three Bananas . 2013 I Really
Don't Like That Guitar Solo . 2014 A Bit of Gravitas and No Bullshit . 2015
The Neighbourhood Isn't Exactly the Champs-Élysées . 2016 If You Take
Someone's Heart Out. They Die . 2017 We're About to Blow Up the Best Studio
of All Time . 2018 A Very Specials Year . 2019 Experimentation and Mistakes
. 2020 Weird and the Birth of Zooming . Neatly Folded and Ironed . Picture
Credits . Acknowledgements
