CHRISTOPHER SANDFORD recalls a brilliant, betrayed band All rock musicians carry a strong potential for disaster. On top of their youth and volatility, already a toxic combination, they swim in the notoriously shark-infested waters of showbusiness. Add the proximity of mind-warping drugs, uncomplicated sex and other inducements, and, notwithstanding the example of a few carefully…
DEREK TURNER tries translating Lingua Ignota Radio 6 is one of the rare good things about the BBC, championing alternative, independent or overlooked pop and rock from the 1950s up to the present. On any evening of any week, you can hear anything from film scores to 1960s psychedelia, prog rock to trip-hop, industrial to…
Rites of Dionysus, by Tim Shaw MARK GULLICK says the hyperbolised decade turned naivety into nastiness “They’re selling hippie wigs in Woolworths, man. We’re at the end of the greatest decade in the history of mankind, and as Presumin’ Ed has so consistently pointed out, we have failed to paint it black.” Withnail and I…
Genesis in 1973 (Steve Hackett second from right) A Genesis in my Bed, Steve Hackett, Wymer Publishing, 208 pages, £13.99 CHRISTOPHER SANDFORD enjoys the modest memoirs of a guitarist who has little to be modest about While the likes of the capital’s O2 Arena brace themselves for the invasion of the Phil Collins version of…