Daniel Rachel

Musician-turned-award winning author

[Daniel Rachel @DanielRachel69]

I'm super excited to announce my new book:

THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL
Pop Music, the Swastika & the Third Reich

'A shocking and absorbing chronological account of pop music’s complicated history with fascism & the imagery surrounding it'
30.10.25

https://t.co/0NKUB3ZW8T

[Samira Ahmed @SamiraAhmedUK]

My Beatles train is pulling into London on Jun 11. With the ace @DanielRachel69 on board.
Tickets (to ride) please!🎸🎥🎬🎶https://t.co/hprnnb1HJx

[Ocean Colour Scene @OCSmusic]

Ocean Colour Scene's frontman and songwriter Simon Fowler will be performing "The Ocean Colour Scene Songbook" tour across the UK in 2027 and 2028. Reliving his best work during an evening of classic songs and stories

Tickets are onsale now https://t.co/jrVCABxuKM

[Britpop Memories @Britpopmemories]

I very much enjoyed the Oasis book talk with @TedKessler1 and Hamish McBain tonight at the @ICMP_uk in Queens Park, hosted by @DanielRachel69

Great venue in a nice little area of London.

Keep an eye on @kingofliam for future evenings that you might enjoy.

[Daniel Rachel @DanielRachel69]

@Britpopmemories If I remember correctly, Kula Shaker didn't play that night. They arrived in a spliter van and we had a short chat with them in the Jug car park; I vaguely remember Crispin saying his voice wasn't up to it....

[The Long Play Sessions @kingofliam]

Next month we welcome @SamiraAhmedUK to The Long Play Sessions at @ICMP_uk as she discusses her superb book on @thebeatles film A Hard Day's Night for @BFI

Hosting this special evening will be @DanielRachel69 and early bird tickets are available for £5 on the link below.

[Daniel Rachel @DanielRachel69]

Thankyou to everyone who packed out Chat's Palace
Rock Against Racism at Hackney History Festival

Hosted by Andrew Harrison @Nndroid with guest floor-spots!

WALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN
The Music & Politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone & Red Wedge
https://t.co/8l1i55RJ58

[The Long Play Sessions @kingofliam]

**FLASH SALE - £5 Tickets available for a limited time**

Join @TedKessler1 Hamish MacBain and @DanielRachel69 for an evening of Oasis as they discuss A Sound So Very Loud, the peerless book on every song Oasis ever recorded.

Tickets are here - https://t.co/qT4VuF3ZHC

[Daniel Rachel @DanielRachel69]

FASCISM YOU CAN DANCE TO!
“As an inducement to hysteria, it’s a wonder Hitler didn’t think of it.”
Great review in @anotherchimag

https://t.co/IFK0VLSs5M

[Daniel Rachel @DanielRachel69]

TALKING ROCK AGAINST RACISM
with Andrew Harrison

Hackney History Festival - Sunday 17 May
https://t.co/imkUjYwag1

[Daniel Rachel @DanielRachel69]

Rock 'n' Roll. The Swastika #antisemitism

Lennon. Lemmy. Brain Jones. Siouxsie Sioux. Kanye West...

THIS AIN'T ROCK 'N' ROLL
https://t.co/0NKUB3ZW8T

[Akashic Books @AkashicBooks]

@aboutauthorstv @DanielRachel69 is on About the Authors TV to discuss his book, "This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich." Watch here:
https://t.co/9UHOCVNrrF

"This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll" is available through Akashic Books at
https://t.co/9FO7v6dsSH

[Michael Williams (Mikey) @MIKEYWMS]

Books, books ,Read it in books .
"Read It In Books" is a post-punk song by Echo & the Bunnymen.
Featured here :
Ian Preece Independent labels
@PaulSimpson
@paulwellerHQ
@DanielRachel69
#NorthernSoul
#Scorcha
I love to have a good read and that's where I get my info☺️

[Pauline Black OBE DL @paulineblackOBE]

Happy birthday to dearly departed The Selecter founding member, Arthur Gaps Hendrickson. Sadly & profoundly missed, but your voice, style and wit are always with us in memory. ❤️❤️❤️Pauline xx

[Akashic Books @AkashicBooks]

@DanielRachel69 's book, "This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll," is reviewed in @musicconnection Music Connection! Read the whole article here:
https://t.co/MiLkMmUF6U

His book is available through Akashic Books at https://t.co/9FO7v6dsSH

[Daniel Rachel @DanielRachel69]

'Rarely has a book felt so timely....
Rachel fearlessly & skilfully takes the bull by the horns, taking musicians—many mainstream & beloved—to task over their flirtations with Nazi imagery.
No icon is safe.... a brilliant book!' @musicconnection

https://t.co/2g40CdD75P

[Daniel Rachel @DanielRachel69]

@e17RnR_books @muzicgeezer Where the pic of the books from -the V&A East?

[Daniel Rachel @DanielRachel69]

@natalieiwood @trishaposner Afraid, not...but he did go to school just down the road from me (where I used to play chess) ... !

[Daniel Rachel @DanielRachel69]

SEX , NAZISM AND ROCK 'N' ROLL!

[The Times of Israel @TimesofIsrael]

INTERVIEW: From the swastika-emblazoned shirts of Sid Vicious half a century ago, to Kanye West’s lifelong admiration for Adolf Hitler, countless pop and rock stars have played in the Third Reich sandbox. Few suffered lasting career damage for fetishizing Nazism.

Published in February, “This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika, and the Third Reich,” offers the first comprehensive history of the music industry’s obsession with Nazism. Alongside a parade of iconic goose-steppers, author Daniel Rachel interwove a “parallel narrative to explain the original meaning of Nazi symbolism, events and terminology,” he told The Times of Israel.

Read the full interview on The Times of Israel:

https://t.co/EXiAef6tQX

[Trisha Posner @trishaposner]

The music industry has been poisoning generations for decades with something even more insidious than campus indoctrination: a casual, cool flirtation with Nazism that never gets punished.

From Sid Vicious rocking swastika shirts, to Bowie staging concerts like Nuremberg rallies, to John Lennon sketching Hitler as a boy, calling himself “Adolf,” and crooning “Baby, You’re a Rich Jew” — rock and pop stars have played in the Third Reich sandbox for 80 years with almost zero consequences.

Musician-turned-author @DanielRachel69 has written a powerful book, “This Ain’t Rock ‘n’ Roll,” that finally lays it bare: the music world gives itself a free pass on Nazi symbols, aesthetics, and tropes that would end any career in film, literature, or politics.

Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi propaganda films shaped their stage designs. The swastika — explicitly antisemitic the moment Hitler adopted it — got rebranded as “edgy theater.” Meanwhile, Holocaust education is still missing in over half of US states, so kids absorb these tropes without understanding the horror behind them.

This isn’t harmless rebellion. It’s how antisemitic poison gets mainstreamed into the culture our children consume every single day — celebrated as cool and rarely challenged.

Enough with the blatant double standard.

If the industry can confront racism and misogyny, it damn well better confront Jew-hatred too.

Call it out.
#Antisemitism

[The Long Play Sessions @kingofliam]

And now, with added poster!

Tickets also available here - https://t.co/rDDmejjqPh

[Daniel Rachel @DanielRachel69]

Kanye before Kanye-Gate....

Nazi antics of the Beatles & Stones, Serge Gainsbourg, Malcolm McLaren, and social media in the age of #KanyeWest

Have a listen....
https://t.co/PQPGKd2TUE

https://t.co/pxTyhGwnkA