Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache: How Music Came Out

Popular music's queer DNA is inarguable; however, due to the tenuous legal status of homosexuality and the rife bigotry of large-scale industries, there has never been a comprehensive general history of queer personalities and influences in and around popular music - until now. Breaking Down the Walls of Heartache documents the tale of popular music's queer past, present, and future. Offering a definitive social and musical history spanning 100 years, this tome includes over 90 original interviews, sixteen full pages of photographs, and an archive of other materials accumulated over author Martin Aston's twenty-plus year career as a music commentator and journalist focused on LGBTQ+ life and culture. International, thorough, and comprehensive, this documentation of the long and hard journey to personal freedom is a tribute to the queer artists out there who were and who are yet to be.

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