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You Know What You Could Be: Tuning into the 1960s

English

By (author): Andrew Greig Mike Heron

'Mike Heron, as part of the Incredible String Band, changed the way I looked at music. Read it!' Billy Connolly

'Mike Heron's lyrics always sparkled with wit and warmth and his prose is a delightful continuation. The book evokes a smoky, unheated eccentric Edinburgh that was a crucible for so much creativity.' Joe Boyd, author of White Bicycles

This singular book offers two harmonising memoirs of music making in the 1960s. Mike Heron for the first time writes vividly of his formative years in dour, Presbyterian Edinburgh. Armed with a love of Buddy Holly, Fats Domino and Hungarian folk music, he plays in school cloakrooms, graduates to rock, discovers the joy of a folk audience, starts writing songs, tries to talk to girls, wishes he was a Beatnik all while training as a reluctant accountant. When asked to join Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer, the Incredible String Band are formed - and their wildly innovative, astounding music became indelibly linked with the latter Sixties.

Andrew Greig was a frustrated provincial schoolboy when he heard their songs. It changed everything. Undaunted by a lack of experience and ability, he formed a band in their image. Fate & Ferret populated back-country Fife with Pan, nymphs and Apollo, met the String Band and caught the fish lorry to London to hang around Joe Boyd's Witchseason office, watching at the fringes of the blooming Underground scene. It was forty years later that he and Mike became friends.

These entwined stories will delight anyone who has loved the Incredible String Band; and their differing portraits of that hopeful, erratic and stubborn stumble towards the life that is ours will strike a chord with everyone.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 280g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Apr 2018
  • Publisher: Quercus Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780857054876

About Andrew GreigMike Heron

Praised by Paul McCartney and Robert Plant Mike Heron born in Edinburgh was a founder member of the Incredible String Band. As a solo artist he has worked with John Cale Pete Townshend and Keith Moon. He is still writing and performing music touring regularly with a host of musicians including his daughter Georgia and Trembling Bells. Andrew Greig has written over twenty acclaimed books of poetry non-fiction and novels the most recent being Later That Day; You Know Who You Could Be (with Mike Heron); and Fair Helen respectively. Elements of these genres along with a love of adventure and landscape mark all his writing and give it its particular quality. A full-time writer and sometimes musician he lives in Edinburgh and Orkney with his wife novelist Lesley Glaister. Sir William Connolly CBE is a much-loved Scottish comedian musician TV presenter actor and artist. Now a 'welder statesman' he is the recipient of a BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Award and is regularly voted the nation's favourite stand-up comedian. His collected stand-up routines TALL TALES & WEE STORIES was a No.1 bestseller and has spent over a year in the Sunday Times' charts. Billy was born and raised in Glasgow and now lives in America

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