As its title suggests, this book is an essential purchase for anyone who owns an acoustic guitar - the book contains 70 songs that sound great! From classic tunes like 'Hotel California' and 'Waterloo Sunset' through to modern anthems like 'Bitter Sweet Symphony' and Radiohead's 'Street Spirit (Fade Out)', this book has a huge selection of favourites to keep you strumming away for hours. Each song is presented very simply, with lyrics and chord symbols, so there's no need to be able to read music. The spiral binding means that the book lays flat wherever you put it, allowing for maximum strumming pleasure! Chord shapes given are authentic and sound great on an acoustic guitar. The book features simple 'lyrics and chords' format; authentic and easy chord shapes given for every song; includes capo and tuning information where appropriate and special 'lay-flat' binding. Contents: All The Small Things (Blink 182); All You Good People (Embrace); Angie (The Rolling Stones); Any Day Now (Elbow); Bitter Sweet Symphony (The Verve); Burning Down The House (Talking Heads); Central Reservation (Beth Orton); Come Together (Primal Scream); Cryin' (Aerosmith); Don't Dream It's Over (Crowded House); Empty At The End (Electric Soft Parade); Everybody Hurts (R.E.M.); Everyday Is Like Sunday (Morrissey); Fast Car (Tracey Chapman); Fat Lip (Sum 41); Fell In Love With A Girl (The White Stripes); Fireworks (Embrace); Fly Away (Lenny Kravitz); Future Boy (Turin Brakes); Going Places (Teenage Fanclub); Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) (Green Day); Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (The Smiths); Hotel California (The Eagles); Hotel Yorba (The White Stripes); Hunter (Dido); It's A Shame About Ray (Lemonheads); Karma Police (Radiohead); Kiss Me (Sixpence None The Richer); Losing My Religion (R.E.M.); Love Burns (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club); Mansize Rooster (Supergrass); Mellow Doubt (Teenage Fanclub); Movin' On Up (Primal Scream); Moving (Supergrass); Mr. Jones (Counting Crows); My Drug Buddy (Lemonheads); Next Door (Foo Fighters); Novocaine For The Soul (Eels); Over The Rainbow (Eva Cassidy); Panic (The Smiths); Porcelain (Moby); Pounding (Doves); Powder Blue (Elbow); Rhythm & Blues Alibi (Gomez); Save Tonight (Eagle-Eye Cherry); Secret Smile (Semisonic); Shot Shot (Gomez); Silent Sigh (Badly Drawn Boy); Silent To The Dark (Electric Soft Parade); Slight Return (The Bluetones); Soak Up The Sun (Sheryl Crow); Something In My Eye (Ed Harcourt); Something To Talk About (Badly Drawn Boy); Song 2 (Blur); Song For The Lovers (Richard Ashcroft); Standing Still (Jewel); Street Spirit (Fade Out) (Radiohead); Teenage Dirtbag (Wheatus); Tender (Blur); The Drugs Don't Work (The Verve); The Man Who Told Everything (Doves); There Goes The Fear (Doves); Time In A Bottle (Jim Croce); Underdog (Save Me) (Turin Brakes); Walking After You (Foo Fighters); Warning (Green Day); Waterloo Sunset (The Kinks); Weather With You (Crowded House); Wicked Game (Chris Isaak); Wild Wood (Paul Weller).