Gram Parsons: God's Own Singer

Outstanding new biography of the beautiful, talented, wasted and ultimately doomed singer/songwriter who took every drug going and yet somehow invented country rock. Originally a member of The Byrds, he left them to form the acclaimed Flying Burrito Brothers and then went solo. At the height of his career, aged just 26, he died of a drug overdose but by that time he had become a major influence on the music of the era and paved the way for The Eagles, Neil Young, Crosby, Stills and Nash and many more.