White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s - Brossura

As a memoir of the enchanted Sixties, White Bicycles is among the elite. It isn't just that Boyd was among the era's movers and shakers, he has a rare recall of events ('I never got too stoned,' he confesses) and a fluid, engaging style. The book bristles with evocative anecdotes... Exhilarating (Observer Music Monthly)

This engaging and readable book is an important addition to the history of its time...terrific...pleasantly gossipy (Hanif Kureishi New Statesman)

Boyd writes in a dry, assured style about remarkable times, and he achieves the goal of any music book: to make the reader want to check out the music he writes about (Will Hodgkinson Guardian Guide)

One of the most lucid and insightful music autobiographies I've read (Michel Faber Guardian)

Reading Boyd's cracking account of the Sixties, you wonder if his life since hasn't been one long disappointment... It's a colourful story, beautifully told...You are left relieved that such a central figure wrote this exceptional memoir (Mark Ellen Observer)

A vivid eye-witness account...pulses with the mad enthusiasms of its period and its author (Robert Sandall Sunday Times)

An unashamed celebration of Boyd's pivotal role in the Sixties (The Times)

Boyd is one of that select group of rock luminaries, like John Peel, or the American producer Rick Rubin, who didn't have to pick up a guitar to shape the evolution of entire genres of music.And this book is the perfect literary echo of a lifetime's subtle facilitation... Boyd's pages abound with astute observations and fascinating personal detail...a transport of delight (Independent on Sunday)

[A] riveting memoir (Time Out)

A wise, thoughtful and engrossing account, White Bicycles is one of the best 1960's essays of recent years (Scotsman)

Record and film producer Joe Boyd was born in Boston in 1942, and was the producer of Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, REM and many others. He produced the documentary 'Jimi Hendrix' and the film 'Scandal'. In 1980 he started Hannibal Records and ran it for 20 years. Boyd lives in London.