You may remember the Helium Kids. Back in their late '60s and early '70s heyday they appeared on Top of the Tops on 27 separate occasions, released five Billboard-certified platinum albums, played sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden and were nearly, but not quite, as big as the Beatles...

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1. Verfasser:	Taylor, David John 1960- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Constable 2018
Schlagworte:	Helium Kids / Fiction Rock groups / England / Fiction Rock music / History and criticism / Fiction Rock musicians / Fiction Fame / Fiction Nineteen seventies / Fiction Press agents / Fiction Norwich (England) / Fiction Picaresque fiction Fiktionale Darstellung
Zusammenfassung:	You may remember the Helium Kids. Back in their late '60s and early '70s heyday they appeared on Top of the Tops on 27 separate occasions, released five Billboard-certified platinum albums, played sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden and were nearly, but not quite, as big as the Beatles and the Stones. Three decades later, in the big house on the outskirts of Norwich, Nick Du Pont is looking back on the rollercoaster years he spent as their publicist in a world of licensed excess and lurking tragedy. What follows is not only the story of a rock band at a formative time in musical history, when America was opening up to English music and huge amounts of money and self-gratification were there for the taking. For the tale is also Nick's - the life and times of a war-baby born in a Norwich council house, the son of an absconding GI, whose career is a search for some of the advantages that his birth denied him. It is at once a worm's eye of British pop music's golden age and a bittersweet personal journey, with cameo appearances from everyone from Elvis and Her Majesty the Queen Mother to Andy Warhol
Beschreibung:	IX, 460 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:	9781472128836 1472128834 9781472128843 1472128842