Arthur Lee: Alone Again Or - Softcover

Hoskyns, Barney

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841953156 ISBN 13: 9781841953151

Publisher: Canongate U.S., 2003

Synopsis

Arthur Lee's band, Love, is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential groups of the late sixties. Led by Lee through a tempestuous history of dissolution and resurrections, their psychedelic-folk masterpiece, Forever Changes, regularly appears high in polls of the greatest albums of all time. Recent times, however, have not been so kind: in 1996, Lee was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and also received a twelve-year sentence for threatening his neighbors with a gun. Including interviews with Lee himself and guitarist Bryan Maclean, among many others, this fascinating tale reveals the dark side of the Summer of Love -- heroin, crime, and bitter ego battles -- while also tracking Lee's musical career through the post-Love years to his recent incarceration in a U.S. jail.

About this title

About the Author:

After three years as MOJO's US Bureau Chief, Barney Hoskyns returned to London in 1999 and is now Editorial Director of the Rock's Backpages website [www.rocksbackpages.com]. The author of such books as Across the Great Divide: The Band and America (1993), Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes & the Sound Of Los Angeles (1996) and, most importantly, The Mullet: Hairstyle of the Gods (1999). Hoskyns has written for GQ, Rolling Stone, Harper's Bazaar, Spin, the Guardian and the Independent and recently edited The Sound and the Fury: A Rock's Backpages Reader.

Review:

"A good story, great music and a bunch of fascinatingly fucked-up lives."

About this edition

• Publisher: Canongate U.S.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1841953156
• ISBN 13: 9781841953151
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160