Publisher's Synopsis
An Autobiography of Life on the Road By a 60's / 70's Touring Musician
I've no doubt that every touring musician from every era has incredible stories to tell and they will of course all be vastly different. Sadly, most will go unwritten and lost forever.This is my story which includes the following highlights:
- The price of being the rookie
- The German US / UK bases
- 23 gigs in one week
- Travelling back in time
- The incredible NATO base in Naples
- The plane that caught fire mid flight
- The villa from hell
- 3 in a bed
- Deported from Spain
- The Piper Club Rome
- 24 hours stranded in the Alps with no heater
- Nightmare in Paris
- Lulu's party
- Signed to RCA
- Gigs with Elton John, Bowie and others
- The Paradiso club Amsterdam
- A conversation with André Previn
- Life gets easy
- An incredible coincidence
- Me the Snake and the snow
- A gig with Buddy Rich
- A life changing decision
- Bring on the strippers
- Mouflon spotting in Cyprus
- The re-unions
