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Music From Big Pink

Music From Big Pink

by Barney Hoskyns (Foreword), Barney Hoskyns (Foreword), John Niven (Author)

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Synopsis

'I love John Niven's writing - OBVIOUSLY - but came late to his first book, and was blown away by what vivid, delicate time-travel it is. Every The Band fan in the world MUST read it - it's like living in the music. Just smoky, ravishing magic' Caitlin Moran Timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the release of The Band's debut album, Music from Big Pink is John Niven's first novel - a heady blend of drugs, music, sixties counter-culture and intoxicating youth. Greg Keltner is a 23-year-old drug-dealer and wannabe musician. Through his eyes, we witness the gestation of a record that will go on to cast its spell across five decades - bewitching and inspiring artists as disparate as The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Wilco and Mercury Rev. Music From Big Pink is faction: real people like Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Bob Dylan and Albert Grossman rub shoulders with fictional characters and imagined scenarios. Featuring a new foreword from Barney Hoskyns and a new introduction from the author, Music from Big Pink gives us a unique and vivid insight into the birth and legacy of The Band's debut album.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Circus
Published: 12 Jul 2018
ISBN 10: 1526604450
ISBN 13: 9781526604453
Book Overview: Timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the release of The Band's debut album, Music from Big Pink is John Niven's first novel - a heady blend of drugs, music, sixties counter-culture and intoxicating youth

Media Reviews
A moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man's cliched and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy ... Captures not just some of the dreams of that bygone era, but the way those dreams died * New York Times Book Review *
A book to awaken a deeper appreciation of The Band's sweet poetry ... A story that might illuminate an entire period ... Will be admired by anyone who's interested in the era that made our own -- Andrew O'Hagan
Like the album itself, Niven's story occupies that 60s fault line where hedonism and optimism turn to failure and melancholy ... Niven's beautifully tragic mini-novel crawls inside the lonesome core of this one-off album, penning a heart-broken postcard from a past he never knew * Mojo *
As evocative as it is gripping * Observer *
Irresistible * Independent *
`More than an oblique work of criticism. It is itself, like its subject, a grand work of art * Ukula Magazine *
Author Bio
John Niven was born in Scotland around the time that Music from Big Pink was recorded. After playing guitar in 1980s indie hopefuls the Wishing Stones, he read English Literature at Glasgow University and went on to work as an A&R man in the UK music industry before leaving to write full time. He is the author of eight novels, including Kill Your Friends, The Second Coming and Straight White Male.