Matthew Restall

Matthew Restall is an historian of Latin America and of popular music. London-born, and raised in England, Spain, Venezuela, and Japan, he currently holds the Sparks Professorship in History and Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. Having written some thirty books on Latin American history, his first book on pop music was Blue Moves in the 33 1/3 series, and he is now writing On Elton for Oxford's Opinionated Guides series. He dreams of retiring to write on nothing but pop until he drops. matthewrestall.com