Peter Mills is Senior Lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has published books on Van Morrison (Hymns To The Silence, Bloomsbury, 2010) , Samuel Beckett (Beckett at Reading, 2002) and The Monkees (The Monkees, 'Head' and the 60s, 2016). He is co-editor of The Beatles in Perspective: A Carnival of Light (2023). He has written, contributed to and appeared in BBC radio and TV documentaries on musical topics from punk to classical, and hosted World Music events at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.