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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
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 !