An excerpt from Chapter 4 of All In Your Head – "Undiagnosis..."– by Marcus Sedgwick. Click on the cover to learn more. * The full horror of not knowing had started to sink in. I was desperate to find out what was wrong with me, and should proof of this…
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50 Years of Hard Road – Dark Days
An excerpt from Chapter 4 of 50 Years of Hard Road by Nick Charles MBE. I considered my predicament from every angle following my meeting with the fish man. I walked for miles around the crowded streets of London, looking at various shop windows and sniffing hungrily at the different…
50 Years of Hard Road – Sam, Dave, and Johnny Two Gobs
An excerpt from Chapter 6 of 50 Years of Hard Road by Nick Charles MBE. I cannot begin to imagine what modern-day health and hygiene inspectors would have made of the many hostels I frequented. However, to people like me, they were an absolute godsend. Street people typically take a…
The UFO Club – London 1966
An excerpt from Chapter 9 - Darlings of the Psychedelic Underground - from Thinking About Tomorrow – Excerpts from the life of Keith West While Tomorrow would eventually hitch themselves firmly to the counter-culture and psychedelic bandwagon, it’s important to recognise that, as 1966 came to an end, this was…
Keith West and Excerpt From a Teenage Opera
“What I take the influence back to, was Excerpt from a Teenage Opera, a record in the late 60s, by Keith West that was episodic. That was really the one that was the biggest influence, and then lots of people started doing it. I think it was just that one…
Keith West – Lead Singer of Tomorrow – where is he now?
Keith West is the legendary lead singer, songwriter and front man of several ground-breaking bands, including the 60s seminal band Tomorrow. Indeed, Tomorrow and Keith West were at the forefront of the psychedelic rock movement, along with Pink Floyd and Soft Machine. After the demise of Tomorrow, Keith went on…
50 Years of Hard Road – The End of the Beginning
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of 50 Years of Hard Road by Nick Charles MBE. ‘The trouble with dying is it’s so bloody final!’ I was lying flat on my back across a railway track, a hundred yards up from my local railway station with my head on the line,…
Teenage Opera, ‘the’ soap opera
An excerpt from Chapter 12 of: Thinking About Tomorrow – Excerpts from the life of Keith West * The idea for the song that was to define Keith West’s professional career, in the mind of the general public at least, supposedly came from a dream which Mark Wirtz had in…
Dana Gillespie and David Bowie
An excerpt from Chapter 2 of Dana Gillespie: Weren’t Born a Man * By now, I was a regular at the Marquee Club, and whenever I could go, I would be down there, getting my fix of the Blues. One evening, Friday the 6th of November 1964 to be precise,…
Gerard Houllier
An excerpt from Champions Again. By Ian Carroll. I’ll go on record right now and say that I love, absolutely love Mr Houllier. Everything you’ll read in the next few chapters will have that mark of respect. He started out as a schoolteacher, and while he was studying for that…