Robin Hitchcock announced the memoir, 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left. The cult singer-songwriter and bandleader of the Soft Boys and the Egyptians chronicles a 12-month period of his early adolescence in the book, chronicling his alienating move to a new school and subsequent obsessions with the Beatles, Brian Eno, Jimi Hendrix and much more. It will be published via Akashic books in the United States on June 28.
In a press release, Hitchcock says, “1967 is where I and the world went through the shift. It was just a happy synchronicity as I grew nine inches in 15 months, just as Dylan was electrifying and pop bands were turning into rock bands. It was arguably as much lost as it was won, but at the same time, you had Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd and others producing music that couldn't even be described three years earlier. You had the Beatles in suits and ties producing invisible shows with tiny amps, playing in many ways with the old rules of showbiz, and then suddenly there was Dylan with his thousand-watt PA and Jimi Hendrix with his Marshall stacks and whole thing. burst out”.
Hitchcock is currently touring North America—see dates on his Website.
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