I'm a sucker for a good front cover . . .

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A follow up to the album challenge.

Day #5
With no explanations, post ten books that have made their mark on your life. Once a day, post the book cover and nominate a new person.

Pigs Feet (North London)

It was always much more than just Walker . . .

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A follow up to the album challenge.

Day #4
With no explanations, post ten books that have made their mark on your life. Once a day, post the book cover and nominate a new person.

MM (The Portland Dandy.)

Carr trumps Newell . . .

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A follow up to the album challenge.

Day #3
With no explanations, post ten books that have made their mark on your life. Once a day, post the book cover and nominate a new person.

JG (The Timperley Anarchist)

"That email address is a passing phase . . ."

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A follow up to the album challenge.

Day #2
With no explanations, post ten books that have made their mark on your life. Once a day, post the book cover and nominate a new person.

Kaz

Casablanca (1942)

A Reread is a Good Read . . .

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A follow up to the album challenge.

Day #1
With no explanations, post ten books that have made their mark on your life. Once a day, post the book cover and nominate a new person.

Cherry Death Soda

Lest we forget . . .

. . . they were cheering their heads off when the draw was made:




Rumour has it the self-same individuals were throwing themselves into the Clyde after this.

Kenny (2017)

My British Invasion: The Inside Story on The Yardbirds, The Dave Clark Five, Manfred Mann, Herman's Hermits, The Hollies, The Troggs, The Kinks, The Zombies, and More by Harold Bronson (Rare Bird Books 2017)

Members of almost every English rock band of that time—The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, The Zombies, The Animals, The Yardbirds—had gone to art school. The Yardbirds and The Who even described their music as “pop art.” This exposure inspired progressive and creative concepts and helped to magnify and color the resulting sound. For instance, when The Who debuted their second single, “Anyway Anyhow Anywhere,” many were confused by the purposeful inclusion of feedback. Pete Townshend had attended Ealing Art College, as had Freddie Mercury, Ronnie Wood, and Thunderclap Newman’s John Keene. In interviews Pete kept referring to Gustav Metzger and his auto-destructive art as an influence. Other effects were more nuanced. At Hornsey College of Art and Crafts, Ray Davies watched people in train stations and sketched them. This helped shape his writing, where many of his songs, like “Waterloo Sunset,” placed him in the role of the detached observer.

Never did finish that book . . .

. . . and it's practically a novella:

Once again, from the Facebook vaults.