Title: Lucky Man, The Autobiography Publisher: Constable Greg Lake spent time in a host of small time bands before his big break as co-founder of the legendary prog outfit, King Crimson,…
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Publisher: Borderline Productions Price: £49.95 …and subtitled Australian, New Zealand, African, Turkish And Middle Eastern Rock, Pop, Beat, R&B, Folk, Psych And Prog 1963-1976. With a book name like that, it can…
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Author: Paolo Verda Price: €90 All Around A Hole is aimed at vinyl fans of British progressive, psychedelic, folk, blues and jazz LPs issued in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s.…
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Title: All Gates Open: The Story of Can Authors: Rob Young & Irmin Schmidt In a musical world where soul-lite owes as much to R&B as car-tracked, oil-stained, soot-flecked slush owes…
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Title: Smashing It Up: A Decade of Chaos With Author: Kieron Tyler There are too many people out there who still believe that punk began with the Sex Pistols when, in…
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Book ReviewThe Crack In the Cosmic Egg: Encyclopaedia of Krautrock, Kosmische Musik & Other Progressive, Experimental & Electronic Musics from Germany
Authors: Steven Freeman & Alan Freeman Price: £20 Contact: HERE This book is so large that it cannot be comfortably contained within two card covers. In fact, it has been transferred…
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Authors: John W. Scott, Stu Nixon, Mike Dolgushkin Publisher: DeadBase Too Price: £47.17 [Kindle at Amazon] $90 [Amazon.com or Dead.net] Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack has been published annually in the UK since it…
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Book ReviewSGT. Pepper At Fifty: The Mood, The Look, The Sound, The Legacy of The Beatles’ Great Masterpiece
Authors: Mike McInnerney, Bill DeMain & Gillian G. Gaar Publisher: Omnibus Don’t be fooled into thinking that this book will hit the ground running in terms of the album and the…
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Publisher: Omnibus Press Price: £20 Unlike many other books which have filled this column, this particular publication is not a reference book in the classic sense but a long-form publication to…
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Book ReviewThe Tapestry Of Delights Expanded Two Volume Edition: The Ultimate Guide to UK Rock & Pop Of The Beat, R&B, Psychedelic and Progressive Eras 1963-1976
Author: Vernon Joynson Price: £62 from HERE or £68 from HERE Pages: 2,080 Publisher: Borderline Productions Contact: As above This A4-sized book featuring closely typed text, has been created for the record…
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Author: Patrick Lundborg Price: £30 Pages: 400 Publisher: Lysergia Contact: www.amazon.co.uk As you might have guessed from the title, this book focuses on ‘underground’ or ‘psychedelic’ music. In this case, largely…
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Author: Bruce Spizer Publisher: 498 Productions Pages: 497 Price: $80 Contact: www.beatle.net The first time that this book arrived as a print edition, spanning around 226 pages, there was a audible…
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Title: The Beatles Are Coming! Author: Bruce Spizer Publisher: 498 Productions Pages: 246 Price: $50 (Clearance deals available too) Contact: www.beatle.net I want to draw your attention to two books – a print book…
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Book ReviewTest Dept’s Total State Machine: a sumptuous book of text & photographs & memorabilia & photo-art &…
Title: Total State Machine Authors: Graham Cunnington, Angus Farquhar & Paul Jamrozy Publisher: PC Press Pages: 385 Price: £40 Format: Softback Formed in 1982, in London, an industrial/electronic outfit who loved…
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Title: Whats Going On – Live at the Isle of Wight Label: Eagle Vision Running Time: 163 min Despite the internal musical ructions between lead guitarist, Rory Gallagher and his rhythm…
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Label: Eagle Vision Running Time: 165min “I only know things are different because people ask me different questions. I don’t think that things are changed. I do the same things that…
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Author: Mark Lewisohn Publisher: Hamlyn It might only span 204 pages but this densely worded hardback might just be the most important book that you ever read on the works of…
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Label: Eagle Vision Running times: 250min/255 min Two DVD sets for you: Rush in Rio and Rush, R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour. Let’s look at Rio first. Well, I don’t know what exhausted me more, the…
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Pages: 554 Publisher: Harper ISBN: 978-0-00-747916-0 I wish he’d called it something else. It reminds me of the Leonard Nimoy biographies, I Am Spock, etc. Too obvious and a little crass. Nevertheless,…
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Label: Eagle Vision Time: 146 min This live gig was supposed to be it for the band as an effective creative unit. Pete Townshend wanted to concentrate on his solo work…
