CAPTAIN BEEFHEART The Biography (2004 UK 392-page softback book, Beefheart has been associated with psychedelia, free jazz & rock ‘n’ roll but it's the blues that he has the greatest affinity, his highly individual vocal style, surreal poetry & efforts to take popular music into new territory have a character that has marked him out from his contemporaries, his enigmatic sayings & his increasing reclusiveness have contributed to the fascination of the Beefheart persona, Mike Barnes’s critical biography gives an assured survey of all of Don Villet’s work and an insight into the personality behind it)