White Bicycles

Record and film producer Joe Boyd was born in Boston in 1942 and graduated from Harvard in 1964. He went on to produce Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, REM and many others. He produced the documentary 'Jimi Hendrix' and the film 'Scandal'. In 1980 he started Hannibal Records and ran it for twenty years. Boyd lives in London where he writes for the Guardian and Independent.

An excellent memoir Sunday Express [Boyd] was at the heart of the action... But there's much to interest non-music fans as well Mail on Sunday Drake's suicide provides the memoir with its most poignant episode, but there are plenty of colourful anecdotes Sunday Telegraph Gloriously entertaining... even those unfamiliar with back catalogues and B-sides will be intrigued by Boyd's ability to dish the dirt Observer From Dylan to Pink Floyd, Boyd was there and luckily for us, he can remember it all Daily Express The simple brilliance of "White Bicycles" is that its author never overstates his own importance or exaggerates his failings, and still ends up telling an irresistible tale. New York Times A brisk, wised-up and highly entertaining consideration of a crucial musical epoch's many facets. Kirkus One of the most entertaining and insightful rock 'n' roll books I've read -- Noel Mengel Courier Mail, Brisbane Australia