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| From | "Matt Whitby" <matt.whitby@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Paul Myers music book event in East Bay tonight! (Thursday) |
| Date | Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:07:02 +0000 |
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I saw LBJ sing about...oh.. ten years ago. Seemed like a lovely bloke.
On 24/01/2008, Paul Myers <pulmyears@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Auditeers,
> All this talk about "that book" reminds me that my own book, It Ain't Easy:
> Long John Baldry and the Birth of the British Blues, is still out there
> winning friends. If you live in San Francisco, or the East Bay, we are
> having a little presentation TONIGHT (Thursday Jan 24, 7 pm) at Black Oak
> Books 1491 Shattuck Ave at Vine in Berkeley, CA. I'll be discussing the
> origins of the UK blues scene, and of course the seventies rock scene it
> spawned. We'll also be showing a bit of a documentary by Nick Orchard (made
> for the BBC and Canada's Bravo channel) which contains interview footage of
> Baldry's famous discoveries Rod Stewart and Elton John as well as a snippet
> from Baldry's appearance on the 1964, Around The Beatles UK TV special.
>
> One extra question for the auditeers, Does anyone know for certain if the
> Spirit song "Gramophone Man" was about Derek Taylor? (he's the subject of
> my next book).
>
> Cheers.
>
>
> Paul
>
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