THE ROCK ARTIST’S PROGRESS

Charles Shorwell SPIRIT OF UNICORN MUSIC

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Highly entertaining and nostalgic comic novel from Darryl Way. Charles Shorwell is the nom de plume of Curved Air co-founder/violinist Darryl Way, who proves to be a natural storyteller in this highly entertaining, nostalgic comic novel. Set amid the dope-wreathed counterculture of late 60s, the story opens with pianist Daniel Luckham coming down from the mother of all acid trips in his London bedsit. Like Way himself, he’s studying at the Royal College Of Music, but an early encounter with Spooky Tooth, a love of The Beatles and a drug bust see Luckman drawn inexorably into the rock world. The colourful tale is populated by musos, crusty hippies, dodgy dealers and dodgier managers, homely girls and femmes fatales. Shorwell/Way’s style is conversational, funny and – at nearly 500 pages –…

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