Dave McAleer

Dave McAleer

Dave McAleer is the main contributor for the Virgin Book of British Hit Albums and the Virgin Book of Top 40 Charts. He has also been the sole Music Consultant for the Guinness World Records book since 1998, and is the Official Charts Company Quizmaster. He was the Chief Consultant/Contributor of the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums (now discontinued) for nine years.

He was one of the UK’s first club DJs (1963), before spending 25 years in the record business – working in A&R for labels including RCA Records, Pye Records, DJM Records, Stax Records, Chess Records, Disco Demand, Sugarhill, Calibre, Champagne, Hi, Solar, CTI Records, TMT and Buddah Records, and was managing director of Barry White's label, 20th Century Records. During this period he was responsible for many chart entries, and helped break Disco, Northern Soul, Rap and Hip Hop in the UK. He also managed the Rah Band and gave the first production jobs to noted DJs Paul Oakenfold and Ian Levine.

Author

  • Now That's What I Call A Decade Of Hits – The 1980s (1989)
  • The Omnibus Book of British & American Hit Singles (1990)
  • Chart Beats (1991)
  • Labatts Top 500 Records (1993)
  • Hit Parade Heroes: British Beat Before The Beatles (1993)
  • The Fab British Rock'n'Roll Invasion of 1964 (1994)
  • Beat Boom (1992)
  • All Music Book of Hit Singles (1994)
  • The Warner Guide to UK & US Hit Albums (1995)
  • The Warner Guide to UK & US Hit Singles (1996)
  • The Encyclopedia of Hits – The 1960s (1996)
  • The Encyclopedia of Hits – The 1950s (1997)
  • The Book of Hit Singles (2001)
  • Hit Singles: Top 20 Charts from 1954 to the Present Day (current edition from 2004)
  • The Music Downloader's Source Book: The Complete A-Z of the World's Best Songs (2005)
  • The Downloader's Bible (2006)
  • Official Ultimate 70s, 80s & 90s Pop Quiz Books

He has also co-written such books as The NME Rock’n’Roll Years, The Guinness Who Who of 50s/60s/70s and Soul Music’, The NME Who’s Who Of Rock, Guinness Rockopedia, The Guinness Encyclopedia Of Popular Music, The Virgin Ultimate Rock Encyclopedia, This Day In Rock, The Virgin Who Who of 50s/60s/70s and Soul Music’.

In addition he has compiled/sequenced/written sleeve notes for over 1500 albums for companies such as Universal, EMI, Sony/BMG and Time Life.

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