...Ok, perhaps not history, but can I please heartily recommend you to take a look at the Hue & Cry Album Studio Blog 2010 over at

http://hueandcry.ning.com/profiles/blogs/hue-and-cry-album-studio-blog

Greg Kane is documenting the birth and development of H&C's forthcoming album in an amount of detail that will lift the hearts of even the most hardened Massive members. I suspect many here will find it fascinating regardless of what you think about Hue & Cry's music (and I confess myself a big fan - just a fan, no connection blah blah blah)adding as it does to both an understanding of the recording process and to how things get done these days when bands like these can't use major label support to go and decamp to the country for months.

I suggest when you get there that you go the end (the first posts) and work backwards.