Wednesday 2 April 2008



“I WAS ELVIS PRESLEY’S
BASTARD LOVE-CHILD 
... & other stories of Rock ‘n’ Roll excess”
a Book by 
ANDREW DARLINGTON

Frank Zappa said ‘writing about music is like dancing about architecture’

This is the sound of dancing architecture. Is it autobiography ?

Is it twenty years of Music Interviews ? NAW - it’s both - and more !!!!

• The art of TRAINSPOTTING with LEFTFIELD
• NODDY HOLDER’s contribution to the
   legend of JOE MEEK - ‘The Telstar Man’
• KINK DAVE DAVIES divulges the full shocking truth behind ‘David Watts’
• GENE CLARK gigs in a Wakefield Working Man’s Club, and explains
   how he wrote THE BYRDS psychedelic classic “Eight Miles High”
• FLEETWOOD MAC’s founder PETER GREEN is a ‘Man Of The World’,
   just that for two decades that world happened to be Saturn
• COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH play ‘Electric Music
   For The Mind & The Body’ - live in Leeds
• GRACE SLICK - JEFFERSON AIRPLANE / STARSHIP’s ‘Daphne Dildo’
   Feeds Your Head with ‘Better Living Through Chemistry’
• Franz Schubert comes in to say hello to KRAFTWERK’s Machine Spirit
• How CAN’s HOLGER CZUKAY blew up a Nazi Arms Dump
• FALL’s MARK E SMITH on the secrets of
   GENE VINCENT’s role in ‘The Girl Can’t Help It’ ... plus
• SIOUXSIE SIOUX, STONE ROSES, IAN HUNTER, and more
   AND - How ROBERT PLANT of LED ZEPPELIN met and duets with Elvis.
   How I shake Robert Plant’s hand. The hand that shook hands with Elvis.
   So how I - by proxy, shake hands with my REAL father ....

‘I WAS ELVIS PRESLEY’S BASTARD LOVE-CHILD’
by ANDREW DARLINGTON
(from HEADPRESS / CRITICAL VISION
ISBN 1-900486-17-2 - £13.99 / $19.95)

Still Available from the same author
“EUROSHIMΑ MON AMOUR”
‘POEMS FROM THE INNER MIND TO THE OUTER LIMITS’ 
from HILLTOP PRESS 4 Nowell Place, Almondbury, Huddersfield,
W. Yorks HD5 8PB ISBN 0-905262-27-1 £3.99 / $8.00

And Coming Shortly from the same author
‘BEAST OF THE COMING DARKNESS’ 
a dark Far-Future Science Fantasy novel of visionary scope, in
the tradition of  Jack Vance’s ‘DYING EARTH’, Leigh Brackett’s
Martian fantasies, Robert Silverberg’s ‘MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES’,
and Michael Moorcock’s ELRIC sagas

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