Volume One tells my story from growing up in Cornwall in the 1950s, moving to West London in 1962 and ends when we relocated to Northampton in 1974. It's called 'Too Young for Rock & Roll'.
I was lucky to live in the epicentre of the late 60s counter culture/ underground music scene, and got to see a host of bands and singers before they went on to global stardom. The book also covers my earliest attempts to make music and is a vivid snapshot of the quest for a quality sound using cheap and clapped out kit. Much of the material for the book was drawn from these pages.
The second volume covers the ten years from 1974 to 1984 and is called 'Too Old for Punk'. My band Left Hand Drive played many of the West London pubs at the same time as the dawning of the punk revolution. That wasn't for me so I formed a pop harmony band to play the local clubs and pubs. The book chronicles the changes in pop music from 1977 to 1982 and my band's constant evolution in order to stay up to date. Both books are profusely illustrated. Someone said that there's a photographic record of every bad haircut I had!
The books are available from my publisher's bookshop, from myself, and can be ordered through any bookshop in the UK. You can also download the Kindle version.
https://bookshop.3ppublishing.co.uk/biography-and-autobiography?product_id=76
https://bookshop.3ppublishing.co.uk/biography-and-autobiography?product_id=84
