The AOR Bible: 400 Essential Masterpieces

After a lack of any good AOR literature and the sad decline of the 'Classic Rock Presents: AOR' series, I was hoping this book might just be my fix. Unfortunately, it's really just a reference book, an A-Z of AOR classic albums, but not even with 3 or 4 sentences to accompany each album with album highlights. Perhaps just the top 200 albums would have been better to allow some description of them? Furthermore, the tributes to Fergie Frederiken and Jimi Jamison are painfully short (just one parargraph for two vocal legends) and being a massive Fiona fan, I was hoping for an interview or 'beginners guide to' for her. Overall, I can't recommend this for the price, as the book really needed much more than pictures of albums sleeves (I might have well been on rateyourmusic.com!) - and a few forewords (the best part). Again, disappointing.

The books is really good but could have been so much better. All we get is a picture of the album and a few notes of the band and what the band is compared to and that’s it. Missed opportunity