THE GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN IS ASLEEP

Well, I finished reading 'The People's Music' by Stuart Maconie last night. When I posted about it yesterday, several people accused me of being unfair. But although some of the later chapters are better, the book is still a big disappointment. It is just so lightweight. It reads like a series of columns in a popular magazine. And the mistakes are unforgivable (Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull did not play the first Glastonbury. It was Ian A Anderson, an acoustic singer songwriter and a completely different dude). Other statements remain unsubstantiated. For example it is fairly well accepted that John Lennon went off in a huff after George Harrison refused to let Yoko appear at the Concert for Bangladesh. However, Maconie says that his non-appearance was because of his unwillingness to cut short a holiday. If this is true, it is actually quite a major thing for Lennon scholars. But where did he get it from?

I really wanted this book to be good. But it isn't. Maconie is a fine writer, and I suspect that an editor somewhere took a hatchet to his prose and dumbed it down outrageously. That, dear readers, is a sign of the times.
What's new on the Gonzo Daily?
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com

The Gonzo Track of the Day is from Jack Bruce
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/gonzo-track-of-day-rory-gallagher-jack.html

Another visit to our old friend Thom the World Poet.
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/thom-world-poet-daily-poem_27.html

The trailer for the Dutch Woodstock
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-dutch-woodstock.html

Rick Wakeman's world tour
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/rick-wakeman-journeys-to-centre-of-earth.html

John Shuttleworth live
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/john-shuttleworth-out-of-our-sheds.html

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: Our Keith's old pad
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-cabinet-of-curiosities-keith-emersons.html

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