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Bathed in Lightning - John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond (Paperback)
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Bathed in Lightning - John McLaughlin, the 60s and the Emerald Beyond (Paperback)
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On February 16 1969, John McLaughlin flew into New York, from
London, in a snowstorm. The following day, Miles Davis, his hero,
invited him to play on a record. Two years later, on the path of
Bengali mystic Sri Chinmoy, John launched The Mahavishnu
Orchestra-an evocation in music of spiritual aspiration and
extraordinary power, volume and complexity, far beyond anything
else in jazz or rock. Curiously, it was also a huge success. John
McLaughlin brought rock music to its pinnacle, the end point in an
evolution from Mississippi blues through Coltrane, Hendrix and The
Beatles. And then, in November 1975, he hung up his electric guitar
and walked away from the stadiums of the rock world for an ongoing,
restless career in music of other forms. To most of the world, John
McLaughlin looked like an overnight success, with a backstory going
back only as far as that February in 1969. Yet he had been a
professional musician since 1958, experiencing all the great
movements in British music-trad jazz, rock'n'roll, R and B, soul,
modern jazz, free jazz, psychedelic rock-a guitar for hire at the
centre of 'Swinging London', a bandmate of future members of Cream,
Pentangle and Led Zeppelin, but always just under the radar.
Drawing on dozens of exclusive interviews and many months of
meticulous research, author and music historian Colin Harper brings
that unrepeatable era vividly to life. This landmark new work
retrieves for the first time the incredible career of John
McLaughlin before he conquered the world-and then chronicles how he
did so.
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