Search Results: Titles starting with L from DAVID DONALDSON

Book on VDGG and Peter Hammill songs.
If you had to summarize, you could call this book a critical appreciation of the albums and concerts of Van der Graaf Generator and Peter Hammill as seen through the eyes of a fan who calls himself "Lemming," a sort of self-deprecating reference to his (once) sycophantic (now cured?) fervor for the music. He chronicles his love of the music over the years and how it relates to his personal life, and his friendship with another aficionado, a character he refers to as "Cog." What makes The Lemming Chronicles so appealing is that you get the story from a fan who was actually there at the time and witnessed the events first hand. All the way from the first time he laid eyes upon the "Four young gangling guys who loped onto the scaffolding stage after a warm introduction by John Peel," to the '71 concert where a friend tripped over Hammill's guitar case backstage, to a very eye-opening account of a Hammill / Keith Ellis duo opening slot for Marillion. It runs to almost… Read More

'WHICH IS THE BEST BAND I'VE BEEN IN? THE SMALL FACES WERE THE MOST CREATIVE, THE FACES WERE THE MOST FUN,THE WHO WERE THE MOST EXCITING. THESE WERE ELECTRIFYING DAYS IN MUSIC. WE WERE ALL UNTRIED, UNTESTED. WHAT WAS STOPPING US? NOTHING.' As drummer with the Small Faces, Faces and later The Who, Kenney Jones' unique sense of rhythm was the heartbeat that powered three of the most influential rock bands of all time. Beginning in London's post-war East End, Kenney's story takes us through the birth of the Mod revolution, the mind-bending days of the late-1960s and the raucous excesses of the '70s and '80s. In a career spanning six decades, Kenney was at the epicentre of many of the most exciting moments in music history and has experienced everything the industry has to offer. He jointly created some of the world's most-loved records, hung out with the Stones, Beatles, David Bowie, Keith Moon and Rod Stewart, and suffered the loss of close friends to rock 'n' roll excess and success. The legacy created… Read More

uk: Proteus Pub Co, 1979. vg. Book is vg but there is some tanning to the pages- well the book is almost 40 years oldAn enjoyable career retrospective The word "Illustrated" is shown, and the book really delivers on that note, in fact, the images are somewhat intersperced with the text, which , of course, goes against the traditional "16 pages of great pix!" kind of thing: that is the aspect that appears to be directed at the male reader - the live and behind-the-scenes black and white shots are spectacular and capture a sensuous, emotional singer [even so in the dressing room (?) - this quality consumes any musical setting - there's a glowing animation between she and musician Andrew Gold that positively leaps out from the pages] The photography reminds the fan that Linda's strength is really in the torchy country ballad, though she can rock out on countless numbers, in fact, I really enjoyed the short take on how Chuck Berry's uptempo "Back In The USA" was selected for her "Living In The USA"… Read More

'For those who might have thought that Paul Simon was restricted to "pretty boy" songs such as the straightforwardly sentimental Bridge Over Troubled Water, written to service and display Art Garfunkel's voice, Lyrics 1964 - 2008 will be a revelation' Jewish Chronicle 5/12 'There's no real analysis or critique but Kidd's elegant design, plus the pictures from Simon's photo albums and pages from his notebooks, make this a worthwhile tribute' Record Collector, March edition