About this Item
Inscribed and signed by Joe Boyd at top of title page. There are 32 black and white photographs (including Muddy Waters, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Elvin Bishop, Joan Baez, Nick Drake, Sonny terry, and a host of others). Indexed, with a 2-page timeline of productions and co-productions by Joe Boyd, from 1966 to 1974. 282 pages. Next day shipping guaranteed. Seller Inventory # 003929
Bibliographic Details
Title: White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
Publisher: Serpent's tail., London.
Publication Date: 2006
Binding: Soft cover (trade paper).
Condition: Fine.
About this title
“This is the best book about music I’ve read in years, and a gripping piece of social history.”—Brian Eno
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, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar; when the summer of love got going, Joe Boyd was running UFO, the coolest club in London; 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 sixties music autobiography, Joe Boyd’s White Bicycles 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 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, Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Fairport Convention.
Record and film producer Joe Boyd was born in Boston in 1942 and graduated from Harvard in 1964. He went on to produce Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, R.E.M., and many others. He produced the documentary Jimi Hendrix and the film Scandal. In 1980 he started Hannibal Records and ran it for twenty years. He lives in London.
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