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ByJoe Boyd i::Hil:I3illl9 iIttfhd Heb neafirgE "White i
Bicycles: Making Music in the I
1960s" ($18; Serpent'sTail) by i
acclaimed producer Joe Boyd.
tlrhaft tfs About Boyd's memoir is a fly-on-the-wall
look at some of the seminal music moments of that
decade. He served as Muddy Waterf tour manager,
literally plugged in Bob Dylan's guitar when Mr.
zimmerman went electric at the Newport Folk Festival,
produced Pink Floyd's lirst single, worked with a shy
fellow called Nick Drake, managed UFO (the.hippgst
club in London for a briet psychedelic period) and on
and on.
fryhd fhnsbuil Srysr "Did you ever see Woody
Allen's "Zelig"? Boyd was like the human Zelig of the
'60s. He has a really interesting point of view and he's
a cool writer. He went to Harvard and has really solid
writing skills, really vivid."
ttllhds b Be Leamed: The ABCS (and 123s) of creating
great music, since Boyd was a signal player in touting
classic groups like Fairport Convention (the British
equivalent to The Band), ultimately producing classic
albums by everyone from Sandy Denny and Richard
Thompson to Nick Drake and R.E.M. Michael GilE
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