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Welcome to the official website of record producer and writer Joe Boyd.New White Bicycles Chapter! During the final edit, I dropped a chapter from White Bicycles. It didn't really fit into the flow of the book, being about the events surrounding the making of the film "Scandal", which I produced in 1988 (but which was about the Sixties, which was why I wrote the chapter in the first place). Taken out of the context of the book, it still makes a good yarn, so consider it a 'bonus track' to White Bicycles, available only online!
News Bulletins: UK - Clive Palmer is making a rare trip to London to celebrate the launch of Grahame Hood’s biography (which features a largish section on The Boyd Year and Clive’s subsequent trip to India) on Saturday 24th May, 12 Bar Club, Denmark Street at 7.30. Clive will be playing with a 5-piece band and featuring songs from the early ISB days onwards. 12 Bar ticket line is 0207 240 2622 France - See Video of Joe on Ce Soir ou Jamais on TV3 US - Review of White Bicycles in the New York Times
International News
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White Bicycles: Making Music in the the 1960s. ReviewsNew Reviews from Germany US Reviews "The simple brilliance of... an irresistible tale. Boyd's wit and candor are rare enough, but what truly makes his writing stand out are his insights into an era when rock 'n' roll still seemed exciting and strange." "Boyd tells...this thoroughly entertaining memoir....with the kind of tender precision that raises 'White Bicycles' far above the ordinary rock bio and into the realm of valuable cultural commentary." "One of the most balanced and engaging look-backs of the '60s yet" NY DAILY NEWS "A deliciously detailed memoir." "It's an extraordinarily entertaining book; Boyd pulls from a bottomless bag of great stories, and his understated way with a punchline catches you by surprise. The result is a rock memoir marked by the drollery of an old-fashioned show-biz memoir." "Read it!" |
Compilation wins Mojo Award!White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s - The Joe Boyd Story Track Listing:
UK Reviews "One of the most lucid and insightful music autobiographies I've read. Captures evanescent history with remarkable clarity (and) has enough of a grasp of larger issues - historical, philosophical, psychological - to be of interest to readers unfamiliar with the records Boyd produced." "Joe Boyd's memoir of his musical adventures is as acute and natural-sounding as his record productions. White Bicycles is as good an adjunct to great popular music as any that's been written." "What a wonderful book! I was so engrossed I missed my train station. A gripping piece of social history and the best book about music I've read in years." "Terrific book. The stories he tells are so enthralling and his sense of the period and the characters are so vivid..this engaging and readable book is an important addition to the history of its time." |