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When Muddy Waters came to London at the start of the '60s, 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 the coolest club in London, the UFO; 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 '60s music autobiography, Joe Boyd's White Bicycles offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. His greatest coup is bringing to life the famously elusive figure of Nick Drake - the first time he's been written about by anyone who knew him well.As well as the '60s 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, The Incredible String Band to Fairport Convention.

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They had little idea how fast and how wide those simple words would spread, the controversy it would cause, and only the vaguest idea of how far back the history went.Following the international success of his memoir White Bicycles, Boyd set out to explore the stories behind the music he had helped to populariee.[Bokinfo].

'Was für eine tolle Lektüre!' Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) 'Ein fesselndes Stück Sozialgeschichte und das beste Buch über Musik, das ich seit Jahren gelesen habe.' Brian Eno Der Amerikaner Joe Boyd war als Entdecker und Produzent von Fairport Convention, The Incredible String Band, John Martyn, Nick Drake u. v. a. sowie als Gründer und Betreiber des Londoner UFO Clubs, wo Pink Floyd und Soft Machine ihre Karrieren starteten, der Anreger der psychedelischen Folk-Rock-Szene in England und darüber hinaus. Bereits als Jugendlicher hatte Boyd dem beinahe vergessenen Bluessänger Lonnie Johnson zu einem Comeback verholfen, tourte schon bald darauf mit Blues- und Jazz-Galas in Europa und war 1965 als Stage-Manager beim Newport-Festival Zeuge von Bob Dylans Übertritt zur Stromgitarre. 'White Bicycles' ist ein blitzgescheites und ausgezeichnet geschriebenes Musikbuch über eine Ära, von der die zeitgenössische Popmusik gerade wieder verstärkt zehrt. Es ist aber auch die Geschichte eines Mannes, der immer mit dem richtigen Job zur richtigen Zeit am richtigen Ort war – außer vielleicht gegen Ende seiner Produzentenkarriere, als Boyd kurzzeitig eine schwedische Folkband unter seinen Fittichen hatte, die wenig später unter dem Namen Abba in die Pop-Charts durchstarten sollte.