Wednesday, 22 February 2023

NICK DRAKE - THE LIFE

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My biography of Nick Drake is to be published by John Murray on June 8th this year.  It has been a three-year undertaking, in the course of ...
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Tuesday, 11 October 2022

THE CAN - Sounds, May 1970

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Can recorded the mighty Monster Movie  under their own steam. No major label showed an interest in releasing it, so they pressed it themselv...
Tuesday, 7 June 2022

IPSISSIMUS: 'A heavy sound with walloping drums'

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Ipsissimus released only one single, Hold On / Lazy Woman, which appeared in April 1969. The A-side is a belting cover of a song previously ...
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Wednesday, 9 March 2022

RICK HOPPER - CAMBRIDGE, AUTUMN 1967

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In the course of researching my current book I have been looking through old copies of Varsity , the main student newspaper at Cambridge Uni...
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Monday, 20 May 2019

LEWIS BEACH MARVIN III AND MOONFIRE

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Needless to say, 1960s California was full of weird and wonderful individuals. One such was the late Lewis Beach Marvin III. Wealthy ...
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Friday, 8 March 2019

GALACTIC RAMBLE - revised and expanded edition

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Ten years after the first edition  of  Galactic Ramble  came and went, I'm delighted to say that a revised and hugely expanded secon...
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Tuesday, 11 December 2018

THE MOVE by Michael English

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Between December 1968 and May 1969, the British teen monthly Rave published a fantasy comic strip featuring the Move, by the great Michael...
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