Published by 'Thames and Hudson', 'Rock And Roll Heroes' contains 84 plates (that's a posh name for photos), 11 of which are in colour, the remaining 73 being what the publisher calls duotone. Often the duotone process simply involves substituting the black tones in a print for another colour, as with the covers of ISIS 50, 52 & 53. At first glance the all of the prints in 'Rock And Roll Heroes' appear to be straight monochromes, i.e. black and white, however, on closer inspection some of the grey tones have in fact been duotoned giving a very subtle but extremely pleasing effect .

The books limited text credited to Neil Spencer, basically constitutes an introduction to, and review of, David Bailey's work. Bailey was of course very much responsible for reshaping the way in which the 60s pop portrait was treated, to which his candid pictures of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles during that era are a splendid testimony.

There is one unusual shot of Duke Ellington, seated at his piano with tongue pointing at the photographer that dates from 1963, the rest of the pictures however, date from '64/'65 through to the present day. Most of the artists featured; Dave Stewart, Elvis Costello, Patti Smith, Miles Davis, Ravi Shankar, Alice Cooper, John Lydon, Tina Turner, Elton John, Bob Geldof, Boy George, Sting, Jimmy Nail, Liam & Noel Gallagher, to name but a few are all represented here by one-off pictures. David Bowie is portrayed twice with his two leading ladies, Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon, from Tony Scott's 1983 film 'The Hunger'.

Bailey worked behind the scenes at the Live Aid concert and three of the portraits taken there; a sweat stained Pete Townshend, a triumphant looking Queen, and an even more triumphant looking impresario Bob Geldof, grace this book.

There are also five pages of Beatle portraits that all appear to belong to the same 1965 session. Bailey has a great affection for The Rolling Stones and enjoys a long-standing personal friendship with Mick Jagger. As a result of this, 'Rock And Roll Heroes' seems overly biased to portraying members of the band. There are in fact nearly three dozen pages of Stones pics, and all of the colour prints, except for the one shot of Duke Ellington mentioned earlier, are of Mick Jagger and the Stones. These pictures span from Bailey's first session with Jagger in 1964, through to the last time the two worked together in 1988. Included in the Stones gallery are some of the outtakes from the session that provided the cover for their 1973 album "Goat's Head Soup".

Why, you may ask, does this book get a mention in a Dylan books review column? The answer is of course quite simple, 'Rock And Roll Heroes' contains a single shot of Dylan. The photo of Bob perched on a stool wearing his splendid fringed leather jacket and that long horn earring, was taken while he was in London for the 1986 filming of 'Hearts Of Fire'. This review column could not hope to do justice to the truly amazing quality of the photo's in this book, so an example of Bailey's work is reproduced on the inside back cover of this ISIS.

My only criticism of this book is that I don't like to see pictures that spill over on to double pages. This is a personal gripe that on occasions manifests itself in Daniel Kramer's 'coffee table' book of Dylan portraits.

'Rock And Roll Heroes' is priced around £15.00 and is available from book shops. ISBN 0-500-27906-3.