Rock 'n' Roll remembered. Here writers, artists, poets and players, makers of films and young guitar players - all with Irish connections - flash back together to earlier days, favourite LPs and formative ways.

A common pursuit for the X generation is to play the desert island game - if you could only bring a few records with you to this island, which ones would they be and why.

The editors of this book asked a number of famous Irish and UK musicians, writers, filmmakers, artists, and people in the record industry itself to play the game, to tell them which record albums of the `60s and `70s influenced them the most as they were growing up.