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Peter Harrison - Brixton Boy Calling: B.B.C.: Brixton Boy Calling (Paperback)
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When I opened my office in Archer Street, Piccadilly London
business was very slow. I then started booking all the beat clubs
and coffee bars in Soho. But the business only became a success
when I focused my efforts on Colleges & Universities. I then
formed College Entertainments Ltd. I was managing director until
1972 when I married the love of my life. That is when I sold the
company after enjoying twelve hectic years of rock music success.
That period from 1960 until the early '70's was an exciting
explosive crazy roller coaster ride. It was a frantic time. The
start of unadulterated Rock Music. I started out with nothing. I
was broke and lived on Tulse Hill estate in Brixton. Homeless
people have been known to refuse accommodation on that notorious
estate..... I go into detail about my rock music adventures later.
But here are some tasty INTRO tit bits. Some rock h'orderves to
keep you going before I introduce the main menu... LED ZEPPELIN:
Back in 1968 their manager, Peter Grant, phoned me and said that as
I had been one of the best agents for The Yardbirds I could be the
first agent to book new incarnation, LED ZEPPELIN. Within the hour
of Peter Grant's call I had booked them for their very first gig at
Surrey University. And the fee was just a few hundred pounds. They
became an iconic rock band and Led Zeppelin will live for evermore.
Much of it is down to their tough shrewd manager. And to think the
young Peter Grant, in the late 1950's, was the doorman at the 2i's
coffee bar in Old Compton Street. Before I started my rock music
agency I was a young representative for Jukebox Distributors Ltd in
Wardour Street. Because I was a crazy teenager crazy about pop rock
music, they let me select all the records for that big famous
Jukebox in the 2i's, I seem to remember it was a Wurlitzer. I used
to see the large, menacing figure of Peter Grant on many occasions
at that coffee bar. Nobody would take him on. Peter Grant was also
a wrestler. I remember meeting Mickie Most, Gene Vincent and many
other legends at that popular coffee bar hang out in London's Soho.
Old Compton Street is now a very different place. It is now the hub
of London's gay community network. Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard
and his Drifters (Later the Shadows) started out by singing at the
famous 2i's. Out of little acorns grow... All these other super
groups also started as musical acorns. PINK FLOYD: I feel proud and
privileged to have booked the original Pink Floyd for all those
regular resident gigs at the Royal College of Art Students Union,
Kensington Gore.
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2013 |
First published: |
October 2013 |
Authors: |
Peter Harrison
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
266 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4929-0125-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Music >
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Books >
Music >
General
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LSN: |
1-4929-0125-3 |
Barcode: |
9781492901259 |
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