Mike Roberts (b. 1960), who has a background in art and music, as well as practical experience in pop music (in the 1990s, the group he led, The Mike Flowers Pops, climbed to the top of the British charts), offers readers a detailed a survey of the relationship between art and pop music in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the present day. Why did so many stars of rock, punk, new wave and other musical styles come out of art colleges? How did the artistic environment influence their music? How did they themselves influence contemporary art? Why are advanced artists, from pop artists to our contemporaries, so receptive to pop music? These are just a few of the questions this book answers.