‘A Dead Singer’ is not to be confused with the unconnected Jerry Cornelius story called ‘Dead Singers’ (q.v., 1971), although it does feature the character Shakey Mo Collier (from the Cornelius series) in a ‘faction’ (“a story about someone who lives or has lived in the twentieth century”) alongside a resurrected Jimi Hendrix. To add to the confusion, ‘A Dead Singer’ also had a one-off retitling as ‘Dead Singers’ in the collection Lunching With The Antichrist (1995).
First appearance: Factions
Michael Joseph, 1974 hardcover;
edited by Giles Gordon & Alex Hamilton;
original price: £3·00;
161 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-7181-1194-X;
cover artist: John Riley.
Subsequent appearances:-
Hawkwind
London: Theatregraphics tour programme, 1974 (December 12th);
compiled by Richard Ogden;
price: 20p;
20 pages (including 4-page pull-out poster);
I.S.B.N.: none;
cover artist: Barney Bubbles.
Rock & Folk No. 102
Paris: Editions du Kiosque magazine, 1975 (July);
edited by Philippe Koechlin;
price: 5 F;
116 pages;
I.S.S.N.: 0048-8445;
cover artist: Philippe Druilllet.
First collected appearance: Moorcock’s Book Of Martyrs
London: Orbit (Quartet), 1976 (June 25th) mass-sized paperback (q.v.);
original price: 65p;
175 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-704-31265-4;
cover artist: Chris Achillléos.
as Dying For Tomorrow
New York: DAW Books, 1978 (March) mass-sized paperback (q.v.);
original price: $1·50;
192 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-87997-366-8;
cover artist: Michael Whelan.
Other (anthologised) appearances:-
as “The Year’s Best SF 9” on front cover and spine;
London: Orbit (Futura), 1976 (June 25th) mass-sized paperback;
edited by Harry Harrison & Brian Aldiss
as “Brian Aldiss & Harry Harrison” on front cover and spine;
original price: 65p;
206 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-8600-7894-9;
cover artist: unknown;
‘A Dead Singer’: pp. 182–200.
Bobbs-Merrill, 1976 (September) hardcover;
price: $10·00;
xvi + 240 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-672-52197-0;
cover artist: Fredrick Samperi;
‘A Dead Singer’: pp. 210–233.
Arlington: Paycock Press, 2007 trade-sized paperback;
edited by Richard Peabody;
original price: $15·95;
421 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 0-931181-24-0;
cover artist: David Paul Wyatt Perko;
‘A Dead Singer’: pp. 82–104.
Other (collected) appearances:-
London: Millennium, 1993 (November 11th) hardcover and simultaneous trade-sized paperback (q.v.);
as “Earl Aubec” only, on cover & spine;
original prices: £14·99 (h/c), £10·99 (p/b);
xii + 591 pages;
I.S.B.N.s: 1-85798-047-6 (h/c) & 1-85798-048-4 (p/b);
cover artist: Yoshitaka Amano;
illustrated by James Cawthorn (uncredited: title page);
‘A Dead Singer’: pp. 127–144.
Shingletown, CA: Mark V. Ziesing, 1995 (February) simultaneous standard & limited-edition hardcovers (q.v.);
sub-titled “A Family History: 1925-2015” on title pages;
original prices: $25·00 (std.), $60·00 (“limited to 300 [plain black] slip-cased, signed and numbered copies”);
216 pages;
I.S.B.N.s: 0-929480-46-5 (std.) & 0-929480-47-3 (ltd.);
cover artist: Phil Hale;
‘A Dead Singer’ (as ‘Dead Singers’): pp. 37–61.
San Francisco: Tachyon, 2009 (May 15th) trade-sized paperback (q.v.);
edited by John Davey with Ann & Jeff VanderMeer;
original price: $14·95;
403 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 978-1-892391-86-5;
cover artist: Ann Monn;
interior design: John Coulthart;
introduction (+ notes) by John Davey;
afterword by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer;
‘A Dead Singer’: pp. 25–43; see also The Very Best Of Michael Moorcock.
London: Gollancz, 2014 (December 26th) trade-sized paperback (q.v.);
sub-titled “The Best Short Fiction of Michael Moorcock Volume 3” on title page;
edited by John Davey;
original price: £9·99;
xxii + 325 pages;
I.S.B.N.: 978-0-575-11553-8;
cover artist: Stanislaw Fernandes;
‘A Dead Singer’: pp. 219–243.
Foreign (i.e. non-English language) editions:-
Moorcock’s Book Of Martyrs/Dying For Tomorrow as El Libro De Los Mártires, Spain (1980); Der Eroberer, Germany (1987).
Lunching With The Antichrist as Déjeuners D’Affaires Avec L’Antéchrist, France (2003).
Also in Galaxies Intérieures, France (1976); Le Livre D’Or De La Science-Fiction: Michael Moorcock, France (1981) a.k.a. Le Cavalier Chaos (1990); Rock’n’Roll Altitude, France (2000); Alternative Rock, France (2014).
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