Popular music's most intriguing stories are the tales of what might have been, those seemingly insignificant incidents that would have had the largest unforeseen effects. Imagine ThatElvis is drafted into the army before his first studio session and quietly lives out his days as a support actThe curse of the '27 Club' is broken and rock music rehabilitates its fallen starsMTV flops as music fans side with the radio star and hip-hop never reaches the mainstreamEngaging, contentious and compulsively readable, each book in this new series takes the reader on a historical flight of fancy, imagining the consequences if history had gone just that little bit differently.