The stories in Too Late To Stop Now are mostly from a long-gone golden era for the UK music press, when writers like Allan Jones enjoyed unprecedented access to rock's biggest names.

Featuring Peter Gabriel, Elton John, Sting, Robert Plant, Chrissie Hynde, Elvis Costello, The Clash and more, here are tales of long nights, fuelled by booze and drugs, hungover confessionals, cocaine-hungry Hells Angels, a trip to Texas with Nick Lowe to join the Confederate Air Force, being set on fire by The Damned, and John Cale on his dark alliance with Lou Reed.

Allan Jones remembers a world that once was - one of dark excess and excitement, outrageous behaviour and extraordinary talent, and music legends at the beginnings and ends of their careers.