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Thread #81402   Message #1491103
Posted By: rumanci
23-May-05 - 05:01 AM
Thread Name: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bios
Subject: RE: Folk Singers/Musicians - published bio's
Here's a few more recent ones to add to your list :-D

SHIRLEY COLLINS

autobiography
AMERICA OVER THE WATER
(SAF Pub., 2004)   ISBN 0946719667 (HB)
(subject of a recent Mudcat thread)



RICHARD DIGANCE

autobiography
A WEALTH OF COMEDY
(Robson Books, 2003)



RALPH McTELL

STREETS OF LONDON
biography by Chris Hockenhull
(Northdown Pub., 1997)

two autobiographical volumes
ANGEL LAUGHTER - Volume 1
(Amber Waves - Heartland Pub., 2000)   ISBN 1902684028

covers his childhood up to the "purgatory" of leaving the Infantry Junior Leaders Battalion of the Army at age fifteen

SUMMER LIGHTNING - Volume 2
(Amber Waves - Heartland Pub., 2002)   ISBN 1902684036

covers the next five and a half years and the start of his musical journey !




and three posthumous biographies


NICK DRAKE

NICK DRAKE : THE BIOGRAPHY
by Patrick Humphries
(Bloomsbury, 1998)    ISBN 0747535035   (PB)


VIV STANSHALL (Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band)
GINGER GEEZER : THE LIFE OF VIVIAN STANSHALL
by Lucian Randall and Chris Welch
(Fourth Estate - Harper Collins, 2002)   ISBN 1841156795



JIMI HENDRIX
JIMI HENDRIX : THE MAN, THE MAGIC, THE TRUTH
by Sharon Lawrence
(Sidgwick & Jackson, 2005)    ISBN 0283070056 (HB)
                               ISBN 0283070196 (PB)


All personally recommended and sparkling good reads apart from anything else !

rum