White bicycles : making music in the 1960s
Joe Boyd
Bok · Engelsk · 2017
| Omfang | xiv, 286
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| Opplysninger | Joe Boyd offers the real story of what it was like to be at the heart of the 60's music scene. He brings to life the elusive figure of Nick Drake and presents portraits of a host of other musicians including Bob Dylan, the Fairport Convention and Lonnie Johnson. When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60's, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd. More than any previous 60's music autobiography, Joe Boyd?s White Bicycles offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. His greatest coup is bringing to life the famously elusive figure of Nick Drake, the first time he's been written about by anyone who knew him well. As well as the 60's heavy-hitters, this book also offers wonderfully vivid portraits of a whole host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, The Incredible String Band to Fairport Convention.
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| ISBN | 9781781257944
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