New mellotron book out very soon.......we think.
2007-10-24 by tronbros@aol.com
This is from the Bennett and Bloom catalogue available at their website.
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT
Mellotron
The
Machine and the Musicians That Revolutionised Rock
by Nick
Awde
Some of
Britain’s most influential
musicians, songwriters and
producers chart their careers with the Mellotron.
Across 20-plus
interviews, legendary acts include the Moody Blues,
Strawbs,
King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Barclay James Harvest and
Orchestral
Manoeuvres In The Dark, plus later groups such as I.Q.
and
Sweden’s The Flower Kings.
This Heath Robinson-like machine, built in
the UK’s
industrial
heartland of the Midlands, used banks
of pre-recorded tapes
to create the world’s first sampler keyboard. It lent
its haunting
trademark orchestral sounds to such ground-breaking classics
as
the Beatles’ ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, the Moody Blues’ ‘Nights
in
White Satin’, and King Crimson’s avant-garde album In the
Court of the
Crimson King.
By concentrating on the Golden Age of British rock and
pop
from the late Sixties to the post-Beatles early Seventies, the
result
is a unique insight into how Mellotron bands – many of them
Baby
Boomers who grew up in post-World War II austerity –
refl ected and shaped
the social background to British popular
music and established a lasting
influence worldwide. Linking this
is a thoughtful and often entertaining
overview of the development
of symphonic and progressive rock bands and how,
contrary
to popular opinion, they were not killed off by punk
but
continued instead to adapt and thrive up to the present day.
Published
by Desert Hearts
May 2007, 352 pp., 40 b&w illustrations
ISBN 978 1
898948 02 5, hardback, £19.95
www.mellotronics.com
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