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    <body><![CDATA[It's a very clearheaded, sharply written and affectionate memoir of how several big moments in 1960s pop music happened almost by accident.  The story of the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where Dylan showed up with what to Folkies was an accursed electric guitar, should be turned into a movie.  The ac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4658915">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great, great memoir--tons of fascinating stories, a pile of laugh-out-loud moments, and I felt like Boyd kept himself out of the limelight for the most part as he told his tales.<br/><br/>I just found out there is a compilation CD of the bands discussed in this book, which I'll probably pick up as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36022602">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Killer book. Making records with Fairport, having tea and smoking hash with Nick Drake, rained off the stage with the Incredible String Band at Woodstock, stage manager at Newport the night Dylan went electric, the man that put dueling banjos into the Deliverance soundtrack, co-founded the UFO club ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54903520">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Joe Boyd is one of those behind the scenes guys that you can't help but be envious of.  He worked with or met countless blues and jazz legends.  He was the stage manager at Newport '65 and was in the middle of Dylan's infamous electric coup. He was involved in the early British psychedelic scene and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33983361">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an enjoyable read.  The author, Joe Boyd, was involved with the blues, jazz, and folk scene starting in the mid sixties both in the US and in Europe, particularly England.  It’s not great literature, but it’s decently written and full of Boyd’s interactions with many of the greats.  M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37643489">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s]]>
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    <![CDATA[&quot;This is the best book about music I've read in years, and a gripping piece of social history.&quot;-Brian Eno<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>More than any previous sixties music autobiography, Joe Boyd's <em>White Bicycles</em> 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.<br/><br/>Record and film producer <strong>Joe Boyd</strong> 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 <em>Jimi Hendrix</em> and the film <em>Scandal.</em> In 1980 he started Hannibal Records and ran it for twenty years. He lives in London.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The producer of Nick Drake and The Incredible String Band gives an overview of his involvement with music in the 60's.  Includes an interesting perspective on Dylan, English Folk Revival, and the transition from hashish and analog to cocaine and digital and how it destroyed the music industry (?!?) ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16686009">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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