White bicycles : making music in the 1960s

When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the 1960s, a kid from Boston called Joe Boyd was his tour manager; when Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the Summer of Love got going, Boyd was running the coolest club in London; when a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Boyd was the producer; when a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Boyd. More than any previous sixties music autobiography, Boyd's offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. As well as the sixties heavy-hitters, this book also offers vivid portraits of a host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Fairport Convention.--From publisher description.… (more)