Is there life on Mars? What is love? How do you solve a problem like Maria? These are some of the most famous questions ever asked. But do you know the answer to them? In Should I Stay or Should I Go?, award-winning journalist James Ball takes us on a journey from the economic status of doggies in windows, to what war is good for and what becomes of the broken hearted, to find out the fascinating and hilarious answers to music's greatest questions.In doing so he uncovers what we have always known - songs are the key to life itself.
James Ball has worked in political, data and investigative journalism in the US and UK for BuzzFeed, the Guardian and the Washington Post in a career spanning TV, digital, print and alternative media. His reporting has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the Scripps Howard Prize, the British Journalism Award for investigative reporting, The Royal Statistical Society Award and the Laurence Stern Fellowship, among others.
He knows a lot about pop songs.