Thanks to Apple its a Beautiful Day

Like many university presses we publish trade titles such as cookery or music books so that sales from these can support the academic titles. In September 2005 we will publish Beautiful Day: 40 years of Irish Rock by Sean Campbell and Gerry Smyth. It tells the story of modern Ireland from the perspective of the music produced across the island during a period of rapid, decisive change. The book starts with Gloria by Them (1964) and ends with Chocolate by Snow Patrol (2004). An idea was to include a CD with the book but there were problems licensing the music. So I looked at  Apple iTunes and found 17 of the 40 tracks, these can be viewed  in the iTunes store for Ireland in the iMix section (search for Beautiful Day). I have asked iTunes if they can try and load the rest of the music.