John Van der Kiste has written over sixty books, including historical and musical biographies, true crime, local history and fiction. He has contributed to various journals, reviewed records and books for the national and local press, and is a contributor to the `Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’. His other titles include `Jeff Lynne: The Electric Light Orchestra, before and after’, `A Beatles Miscellany’, `We Can Swing Together: The story of Lindisfarne’, and `Queen Victoria and the European Empires’. He lives in Devon.

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• 1 `Gently encouraged towards music’; 2 Carving Out an Identity; 3 `Different styles all mixed into one’; 4 `Just the quiet lads upstairs’; 5 `We’d had no natural growth’; 6 `How free and open could you get?’; 7 `I wanted something else’; 8 `It’s a serious job’; Discography; Bibliography; Endnotes; Index.

John Van der Kiste has written over sixty books, including historical and musical biographies, true crime, local history and fiction. He has contributed to various journals, reviewed records and books for the national and local press, and is a contributor to the `Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’. His other titles include `Jeff Lynne: The Electric Light Orchestra, before and after’, `A Beatles Miscellany’, `We Can Swing Together: The story of Lindisfarne’, and `Queen Victoria and the European Empires’. He lives in Devon.

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• 1 `Gently encouraged towards music’; 2 Carving Out an Identity; 3 `Different styles all mixed into one’; 4 `Just the quiet lads upstairs’; 5 `We’d had no natural growth’; 6 `How free and open could you get?’; 7 `I wanted something else’; 8 `It’s a serious job’; Discography; Bibliography; Endnotes; Index.

John Van der Kiste has written over sixty books, including historical and musical biographies, true crime, local history and fiction. He has contributed to various journals, reviewed records and books for the national and local press, and is a contributor to the `Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’. His other titles include `Jeff Lynne: The Electric Light Orchestra, before and after’, `A Beatles Miscellany’, `We Can Swing Together: The story of Lindisfarne’, and `Queen Victoria and the European Empires’. He lives in Devon.

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• 1 `Gently encouraged towards music’; 2 Carving Out an Identity; 3 `Different styles all mixed into one’; 4 `Just the quiet lads upstairs’; 5 `We’d had no natural growth’; 6 `How free and open could you get?’; 7 `I wanted something else’; 8 `It’s a serious job’; Discography; Bibliography; Endnotes; Index.