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A SHARP SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM: A Comprehensive Guide To UK Punk, New Wave, Post-Punk, Mod Revival, Neo-Psychedelia, Goth-Rock & Electronic Music 1976-1986ISBN: 978-1-899855-23-0 Following the critically acclaimed two-volume 'Tapestry Of Delights', which has become the definitive encyclopaedic guide to UK rock and pop of the 1963-1976 era, this stunning publication applies exactly the same format used for Tapestry and focusses on the revolution the music business underwent in the UK over the next 10 years and analyses the bands and artists from several exciting new genres that changes the face of music forever. 'A Sharp Shock To The System' is a numbered, limited edition publication of 1,000 copies containing 1,682 entries across 1,440 profusely illustrated pages plus 12 pages of full colour illustrations. Each entry contains detailed artists discographies and line-up details for the 1976-1986 era, biographies and, in most cases, comment and critique of their music, details of compilation appearances and an up to date rarity scale for all featured artists' album, EP and 45 releases between 1976 and 1986. Where artists continued beyond 1986, biographies continue until the present or until the artist ceased performing and/or recording. There is nothing similar in print covering this era that has the scope and depth of this publication. |
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A POTPOURRI OF MELODIES AND MAYHEM: Latin American And Canadian Rock, Pop, Beat, R&B, Folk, Garage, Psych And Prog 1963-1976ISBN: 9781899855223 LAST COPIES!!! The fourth title in the series that has already brought us Fuzz, Acid and Flowers (US psych, prog and hippie-rock 1963-1976) (2010), The Two-Volume Tapestry of Delights (UK rock, pop, beat, R&B, folk, psych and prog 1963-1976) (2014) and A Melange Of Musical Pipedreams And Pandemonium (Australian, New Zealand, African, Turkish And Middle Eastern Rock, Pop, Folk, Psych And Prog 1963-1976). Following exactly the same format as for The Two-Volume Tapestry of Delights and A Melange Of Musical Pipedreams And Pandemonium, Vernon covers Latin American and Canadian rock, pop, beat, R&B, folk, garage, psych and prog between 1963 and 1976 in this latest volume. There are hundreds of entries (large and small) in this volume. Each entry provides artists discographies (album, EP and 45). The discographies are extremely detailed and, for most entries, artists’ overseas releases are included, as well as comprehensive reissue information, details of retrospective compilations and appearances on various artists’ compilations, where applicable. Most entries contain bibliographical details and descriptions and critiques of the music in as much detail as possible. A rarity scale is also provided for albums and EP releases. The book’s scope is even wider than the title suggests with some other genres, such as jazz and rock-soul, partly covered too. Where artists have been active since 1976, most entries include more information on their careers. The album, EP, 45 and song titles by French Canadian and Latin American artists have been translated into English wherever possible to make them more accessible to English-speaking readers. There are black and white illustrations throughout the book and also 12-pages of colour illustrations. The book will be a numbered, limited edition publication – the precise quantity is still to be determined. This is a longer book than A Melange Of Musical Pipedreams And Pandemonium, and contains 896 as opposed to 768 pages, which means we have reluctantly had to reflect this in the price. |
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An American Rock History Part One: California The Golden StateISBN 0-9512875-0-8 This book, the first in a series of US regional discographies, was a detailed study of artists and groups from California with discographies, band personnel details, and in most cases some comment about the artists and the music. Rock, pop, jazz=rock, country-rock, folk-rock, punk, new wave, garage, psychedelia, heavy rock, new country, all are covered. [View / Hide Reviews]'California: The Golden State is the first in what promises to be a remarkably ambitious serious of rock reference books….Its scope is incredible: rather than concentrate as most collectors in a similar position might have chosen to do on psychedelic music, the book ranges right across the board, and includes information on hundreds of different acts, familiar or obscure.' (Record Collector) 12th in Record Collectors Top 20 Rock Books of 1988. 'An impressive task' (Q Magazine) '..Joynson and MacLean should be held in high esteem for documenting the little known combos in this book' (Relix Magazine) 'There are bands described in detail who never even recorded, every record has catalogue numbers and personnel changes. I could go on and on. It's a completists' dream, indispensable.' (Zip Code) '...The scope of the work involved is frightening (details of interesting singles are littered around too); MacLean and Joynson deserve praise just for simply attempting such an idea. The fact they have achieved it is a minor miracle' (Strange Things Are Happening) |
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After The Acid Trip…The Flashback: The Ultimate Psychedelic Music GuideISBN 0-9512875-1-6 This book is a guide to psychedelic rock/pop of the USA, UK and Canada. It includes album discographies, histories, criticism and a guide to the rarity or otherwise of entries. Well illustrated in black and white it also includes eight pages of colour. [View / Hide Reviews]'A very welcome addition to the bookshelf' (Record Collector) '...Joynson leaves no stone unturned, as it were, and it is hard for even the most hardened student of psychedelia to find a faulty fact with which to quibble. (Q Magazine) '...It's refreshing to find a pop journalist who is at much at ease writing abut Yard Trauma as he is Quicksilver… Vernon Joynson has done a commendable job' (Relix Magazine) 'The music of the last few decades has been poorly served by the printed word, so Borderline's efforts stand out like beacons' (Zip Code) '...This is the only book I can recall that makes any attempt to cover both 60s and 80s psych in any depth. A total of almost 900 bands are covered altogether. A lot of research has gone into this book and Joynson has tried valiantly to keep the information as up to date as possible by adding extra material (as an update section) while the artwork fro the main body was being completed' (Bucketfull Of Brains) |
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An American Rock History Part Two: Texas, Arizona and New Mexico: A Southwestern Pilgrimage (1960-1989)ISBN 0-9512875-2-4 The second in the series of US regional discographies, this was a detailed study of artists and groups from Texas, Arizona and New Mexico with discographies, band personnel details, and in most cases some comment about the artists and the music. Rock, pop, jazz rock, country-rock, folk-rock, punk, new wave, garage, psychedelia, heavy rock, new country, all are covered. [View / Hide Reviews]'Not really the sort of book that can be absorbed in one sitting - it's one you'll continue dipping into for months to come. It's difficult to check the accuracy of the book because most of the information is so damned obscure I have no way of checking it. However, the obsessive research of Hugh and Vernon is such that I believe almost every word they say.' (Music Collector) 'Welcome improvements have been made since the first volume, entries are fuller and more authoritative…the scope is vast and the areas' output is microscopically examined. Well worth waiting for' (Bucketfull Of Brains) '..an excellent reference tome; invaluable for anybody with a genuine interest in the music of the Southwest US' (Holding Together) 'A document on the grandest scale, An American Rock History, Part Two is a stunning success, and an essential reference guide for any curious rock/pop music fan' (US newspaper review) |
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Echoes In Time: Tbe Garage and Psychedelic Music Explosion 1980-1990ISBN 0-9512875-3-2 This book contains hundreds of band histories, discographies and interviews; historical analysis of the music, video and events of the 1980s garage scene; a guide to 1980s garage/psych compilations and fanzines; and dozens of rare photos and graphics. [View / Hide Reviews]'For collectors and curiosity seekers this book will be a fest, for anyone interested in the secret rock history of the 1980s it will be a refreshing read through the smudged back pages of a misplaced generation' (Q Magazine) 'If there is someone who can speak with knowledge of the cause of garage revivalism and the principle figures of the 1980s, that man is Timothy Gassen' (Ruta 66 Magazine) 'This book is a must for collectors and any fans of 1960s or 1980s music. As can be expected, Gassen is quite knowledgeable about his subject. This is an essential book.' (Flipside Magazine) 'An excellent reference book to a fascinating genre. One can't help but be impressed with this project' (Discoveries Magazine) 'Well written, undoubtedly valuable as a reference and oozing the commitment of a genuine fan' (Holding Together) |
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Fuzz Acid and Flowers: A Comprehensive Guide to American Garage Psychedelic and Hippie Rock (1964-1975)ISBN 0-9512875-5-9 A detailed guide to US psychedelia, garage and hippie rock of the 1964-75 era. It provides an A-Z listing of relevant artists with discographies, personnel details, band histories, comment on the music and, in some cases, includes the personal recollections of band members. Individual entries also include details of reissues, appearances on retrospective compilations and chart entries. There is also a rarity scale for albums. At the end of the book there is a list of all compilations referred to with label details. At the time of publication it was the most comprehensive and detailed encyclopaedic guide of this era. [View / Hide Reviews]Q Magazine: ...this literally weighty work is primarily a discography of every half-decent, no, every quarter-decent garage, psychedelic or hippy band in America from 1964 to 1975.... Joynson has clobbered the competition with well-researched listings... [Sid Griffin] Crohinga Well: ...without any doubt whatsoever the most impressive, most valuable, and most complete comprehensive guide ever made on the subject of the first era of psychedelic music in the USA.... The end result is a stunning reference work that outclasses all other literature in this field... [Marc Muijen] |
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Fuzz Acid and Flowers: A Comprehensive Guide to American Garage Psychedelic and Hippie Rock (1964-1975)ISBN 0-9512875-8-3 See ISBN 0-9512875-5-9 for description. |
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The Tapestry Of Delights: The Comprehensive Guide to British Music Of The Beat, R&B, Psychedelic and Progressive Eras 1963-1976ISBN: 1-899855-00-9 The book covers British rock and pop between 1963-1976. It includes detailed discographies (albums, EPs, singles and retrospectives) for almost all entries as well as personnel details, biographical information, in most cases some comment about the music, compilation listings and an up-to-date rarity scale for album and 45 releases between 1963-1976. A wide range of musical genre are covered: mainstream rock and pop, Merseybeat, R&B, folk, folk-rock, jazz-rock, blues-rock, psychedelia, freakbeat, glam-rock, progressive rock, including many artists who didn't attract the publicity they deserved at the time and many who'd never appeared in music encyclopaedias before. At the time of publication it was the most comprehensive and detailed encyclopaedic guide of this era. The book was profusely illustrated with 12 pages of colour. [View / Hide Reviews]4th in Record Collectors Best Music Books of 1995 'An impressive 600 page job that includes more across the board info than most rock encyclopaedias' (Q Magazine) 'The Tapestry Of Delights is a revelation. One of its principal purposes: "To bring to your attention many artists who didn't attract the publicity and acclaim they deserved first time around." Indeed, as Vernon Joynson rightly claims, many of these artists have never before appeared in an encyclopedia. From Bent Frame ("A very obscure group") to David Bowie; from Two's Company ("A forgotten pop duo.") to Traffic; virtually every Tom, Dick & Harriet who stood in front of a microphone from 63 - 76, and then put out a piece of vinyl to celebrate the fact, are in here, regardless of alleged 'merit'. The hilarious tale of talentless, flower-power popsters, John's Children, their entrepreneurial producer and the ill-fated Orgasm album ("which still sounds like one of the worst albums ever recorded.") is the stuff of which spoof documentaries are woven; they even command more space in the Guide than Rod Stewart! Yes, this is a book as much concerned with the sometimes shitty underdog as the strutting superstar - their discographies and their ever-changing personnel logged in loving detail. Haverson Apricot, Humpy Bong, and the deliriously surreal Crocheted Doughnut Ring - forgotten names to conjure with. At the tapestry's edge you'll even find the avant-garde likes of AMM, SME, Keith Tippett Group and Howard Riley, who all recorded for major labels early in their careers. That profusion of styles (r'n'b, folk, psychedelic, hard rock, jazz, ethnic, classical) which converged within the still vilified late 60s to mid-70s progressive rock genre, is particularly appealing; here, the archivist's torchbeam reveals a scattering of neglected, innovative British groups (including Comus, Gryphon, High Tide, Third Ear Band) who were just as interesting as the Krautrockers who are currently enjoying a huge critical revival (much of it opportunistic and market orientated - the true diehards know who they are!). But the British progsters' time will come again... This book also functions as a collectors' guide, providing information on the approximate price, availability (including CD reissues) and merit of rare albums and singles. And there's plenty of photographs of record covers to bring back memories of groovier times. If the price tag seems rather hefty for a paperback encyclopedia, consider the detail and astonishing scope of the research contained therein - a great deal of which you won't find anywhere else. The Tapestry Of Delights is, quite simply, the most compelling encyclopedia around. Its cross-referencing system will have you journeying avidly through the labyrinthine highways and byways of yesteryear' (Rubberneck, 1966). |
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Fuzz Acid and Flowers: A Comprehensive Guide to American Garage Psychedelic and Hippie Rock (1964-1975)ISBN: 1-899855-03-3 See ISBN 0-9512875-5-9 for description. |
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The Tapestry Of Delights: The Comprehensive Guide to British Music Of The Beat, R&B, Psychedelic and Progressive Eras 1963-1976ISBN: 1-899855-04-1 See ISBN: 1-899855-00-9 for description, but this edition had an update at the end. |
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The Tapestry Of Delights: The Comprehensive Guide to British Music Of The Beat, R&B, Psychedelic and Progressive Eras 1963-1976ISBN: 1-899855-08-4 See ISBN: 1-899855-00-9 for description, but this edition had an update at the end, which was also available separately. See ISBN: 1-899855-09-2 below. |
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Supplement to The Tapestry Of Delights: The Comprehensive Guide to British Music Of The Beat, R&B, Psychedelic And Progressive Eras 1963-1976ISBN: 1-899855-09-2 This supplement contains updates to the edition published in 1995. Profusely illustrated, it includes over 1,000 new entries and/or updates; an expanded section on relevant sixties and seventies compilations and soundtracks; details lots of recent retrospective compilations. |
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Fuzz Acid and Flowers Revisited: A Comprehensive Guide to American Garage Psychedelic and Hippie Rock (1964-1975)ISBN: 1-899855-14-9 Assembled with the help of avid record collectors, this book is the most detailed guide to US psychedelia, garage and hippie rock of the 1964-75 era. It provides an A-Z listing of relevant artists with discographies, personnel details, band histories, comment on the music and, in some cases, includes the personal recollections of band members. Individual entries also include details of reissues, appearances on retrospective compilations and chart entries. There is also a rarity scale for albums. At the end of the book there is a list of all compilations referred to with label details and year of release as well as discographies for three leading sixties reissue labels: Sundazed, Gear Fab and Akarma. The book is profusely illustrated with 12 pages of colour illustrations. |
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Fuzz Acid and Flowers Revisited: A Comprehensive Guide to American Garage Psychedelic and Hippie Rock (1964-1975)ISBN: 1-899855-16-1 This is a hard back edition of ISBN: 1-899855-14-9 [View / Hide Reviews]***** 'World's best guide to US pop, folk and psych rides again. Vernon Joynson's name has become synonymous with two massive pioneering works of pop scholarship, The Tapestry of Delights and Fuzz, Acid and Flowers. This long awaited limited reprint of the later covers almost every aspect of American popular music of the 60s and 70s. Spread over 1,100 pages are a vast number of acts (spanning folk, blues, rock, pop, jazz and beyond) with personnel, discographies and a rarity scale offered alongside overviews of their careers and a multitude of illustrations. With contributions from many of the world's leading pop experts and collectors, this lovingly compiled and endlessly fascinating book deserves space on every serious music fan's bookshelf. What makes this edition especially desirable is that it is a strictly limited heavyweight hardback printing of a mere 750 copies' (Record Collector, September 2008) |
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Dreams Fantasies and Nightmares From Faraway Lands Revisited: Canadian, Australasian and Latin American Rock And Pop 1963-1975ISBN: 1-899855-17-3 This publication covers rock, pop, beat, folk, folk-rock, blues-rock, psychedelia, flower pop, garage, progressive rock and more from Canada and Australasia in this era. It is a revamped version of Dreams Fantasies and Nightmares published in 1999. It also includes a vastly expanded South American section and a completely new South African section. The encyclopaedic guide contains discographies, line-up information and brief biographies for many of the entries included, as well as some comment about the music, compilation listings and an up to date rarity scale for album releases between 1963-1976. many artists who didn't attract the publicity they deserved at the time and many who'd never appeared in music encyclopaedias before are included in this book. The book is profusely illustrated and includes 12 pages of colour illustrations. [View / Hide Reviews]***** Essential prog-pop-psych-rockography for foreign climes. Continuing the sterling work carried out in his essential books about the 60s and 70s US and UK psychedelic scenes, this hefty volume covers all the pop music outlines in its sub-title, from 1963 to '76. Legends such as Neil Young, The Master's Apprentices, Os Mutantes and Freedoms Children are covered, but so are a massive number of utterly obscure acts, many of whom only managed one 45. A wealth of biographical and discographical information is provided as well as deft critical opinions from some of the world's leading collectors and authorities on underground music of this era. Spread over 766 pages, the book is profusely illustrated throughout, while also boasting 12 pages of full colour illustrations. It's plainly the most exhaustive book on jts subject ever compiled, and an essential purchase for serious music fans'. (Record Collector, December 2008) |
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Fuzz, Acid & Flowers - Revisited Expanded EditionISBN: 1-899855-18-6 The latest 1,422 page version of the most comprehensive guide to US psychedelic, garage and hippie rock ever published. The book provides an A-Z listing of relevant artists with discographies, personnel details, band histories, comment on the music and, in some cases, includes the personal recollections of band members. Individual entries also include details of reissues, appearances on compilations and album and 45 chart placings. There is also a rarity scale for albums. Assembled with help from avid record collectors around the world, this edition now covers a wider time-frame too (1963-1977). For many this is the US Rock bible. [View / Hide Reviews]
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RECORD COLLECTOR: 'Delight? It's f**king heavy man!... Joynson stitches together an astonishing amount of information across these two books...'The Tapestry Of Delights: Expanded Two-Volume Edition Delight? It's f**king heavy man! SHINDIG: The Heaviest TapestryThe definitive UK R&B, psych and prog encylopaedia, THE TAPESTRY OF DELIGHTS, is back and bigger than ever"When I was building up my personal collection in the late '70s and early '80s, I was frustrated by the fact that the groups who released many of the albums I was looking for weren't even featured in the rock and pop encyclopaedias of the era," explains Vernon Joynson about the primary signifier behind him writing his own tailored epics. "I set out to try to rectify this and ensure that many bands that may have been forgotten in the mists of time got more of the recognition they deserved. I think I was the only person doing this at the time. It was 1982 when I set to work on my first book and it's all mushroomed from there." JAZZWISE:For jazz-rock and progressive fans, as well as followers of the harmonica wailing rhythm and blues, psychedelic, folk, beat and rock groups active in the UK from 1963 to 1976, this behemoth of a book, originally published in 1995 as a 600 page guide and expanded to 980 pages in 2006, has just doubled in size again to a whopping 2,080 pages for what's said to be its final edition. Split, rather sensibly, across two volumes (the weight of a single book might have proved hernia-inducing even for Arnold Schwarzenegger) this alphabetical encyclopaedia documents every UK group and solo artist making music from 1963 until 1976 when punk's 'year zero' obliterated the landscape, and tracked down all their albums, EPs and single releases (plus subsequent reissues and archive releases on CD). It also includes entries for many key jazz musicians, including Ronnie Scott, Tubby Hayes, Michael Garrick, Graham Collier, Alan Skidmore, Ian Carr and Keith Tippett among others, and some notable unsigned bands who played key UK venues from this period, but who sadly never got beyond the demo tape stage. In addition to a dungeon-deep discographical trawl for each entry and rarity ratings for each original LP pressing, author Joynson and his dedicated team of expert contributors have included extensive biographical details and personnel for all entries, as well as evaluation of the music and individual recordings. Handsomely illustrated with rare photo's, period press adverts and colour sections for the more eye-catching album sleeves, this exhaustive tome certainly lives up to it's name, and a quick dip into it's pages almost inevitably results in many 'lost' hours and an 'album wants list' of wallet-traumatising proportions. Who, for instance, knew that Louis Moholo and Dudu Pukwana were part of Simba, a short-lived group that released an Afro-rock single version of 'Louie Louie' on the Fire label in 1971? Or that saxophonist Jimmy Skidmore released an album for DJM entitled Skidmarks, the title of which must have regretted ever since? Was Allan Holdsworth's first pro group really called 'Igginbottom'? Or Mike Ketley, the recently-retired managing director of Yamaha Music UK, was in the 1968 mod-psych group Penny Peeps? Even Jazzwise's editor (and at least another of its writers) crops up here in a number of different groups - an inglorious testimony perhaps to their misspent youth. These, and thousands of other fascinating, curious or simply forgettable facts from a period increasingly referred to as 'a golden age' in UK music, await your discovery. (Kevin Whitlock) ALL ABOUT JAZZ:The word "cornucopia" could have been invented just for this immense two volume set. Contained within its 2,000 plus pages lies a veritable wealth of information. First published in 1995 at a modest 700-odd pages in length, and following several revised editions, this is author Vernon Joynson's attempt to cap them all with a vastly expanded edition. The time period covered, the "Beat, R&B, Psychedelic and Progressive" age, was an extremely important era and not least for British contemporary jazz. A surprisingly large amount of jazz is featured here, especially where there has been any sort of a connection with rock or progressive genres. So the inclusion of bands such as Colosseum, Nucleus, If, Keef Hartley Band and Zzebra comes as no surprise, however what is particularly gratifying is the expansion of detail this edition affords to these groups. It should be noted that the time period covered is fairly strictly adhered to, but whilst the two final Nucleus albums recorded on the Mood label in the 1980s are understandably not mentioned, Tony Coe's Zeitgeist recorded in 1977 is given a paragraph. As an example of the expanded entries, the third edition's (1998) coverage of Colosseum (albeit without the short-lived Colosseum II) was approximately half a page, whereas in the expanded edition it has grown to a full two and a half pages. Rather oddly John Dankworth the doyen of modern British jazz, is omitted here despite having made several key recordings during this period, however some of his band's alumni including Michael Gibbs Henry Lowther and Kenny Wheeler are given entries. Curiously, other contemporary jazz musicians from the "old wave" are given space here, such as Tubby Hayes, Ronnie Ross, Ronnie Scott and the one-off big band album by Kenny Clare and Ronnie Stephenson, Drum Spectacular. Of the British jazz "new wave" there are entries for the likes of Neil Ardley and the New Jazz Orchestra (although not credited as such), Harry Beckett, Graham Collier, Lol Coxhill, Michael Garrick, John McLaughlin, Chris McGregor, Harold McNair, Mike Osborne, The Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet, Ray Russell, Alan Skidmore (also his father the late Jimmy Skidmore), John Surman, John Taylor, Mike Taylor, Keith Tippett, Mike Westbrook, and Norma Winstone. Gratifyingly, another new entrant, virtuoso pianist Stan Tracey is given an appropriately sizeable listing spanning a whole page. The crossover jazz-infused progressive bands are properly represented and constitute the likes of Egg, Gilgamesh, Gong, Hatfield and the North, Henry Cow, Isotope, King Crimson, Matching Mole and Soft Machine. In addition to Howard Riley and the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, both cited in previous editions, new entries from the free jazz world include ones for Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley. Most of the entries recorded during the chronological period discussed are accompanied by short critiques and brief biographical details of the musicians and there are several pages of tantalising colour plates of album covers. Also, interspersed amongst the pages are historic gig advertisements, serving as a poignant reminder of the many and varied venues that have now sadly bitten the dust along with so many of the bands. What is singularly delightful in this work is the excitement generated by the serendipitous discovery of jazz entries scattered amongst the pop and rock; hybrid curios such as Chitinous by the Chitinous Ensemble (the title of which is unacknowledged in its entry here) is just one example. For non-jazz fans though the prodigious space allocated to progressive, pop, and rock music is hugely rewarding and there's space enough for some relatively obscure bands such as the short-lived Principal Edwards Magic Theatre or Raw Material and even some spoken word items like an album by poet Adrian Mitchell or the several Monty Python's Flying Circus LPs. Vernon Joynson has diligently researched this reference book and produced something of prodigious proportions and not merely in terms of its size. It reflects a period when contemporary music had surely reached one of its creative zeniths. This is a highly recommended work of significant historical importance and easily stands the test of time.(Roger Farbey) |
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