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Peter Kerr - The official cut up of the bestselling Scottish Author
DON’T CALL ME CLYDE!
Jazz Journey elaborate a Sixties Stomper
PAPERBACK edition published Oasis-WERP 28 May
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AUDIO BOOK - published 1 June by Soundings - a dividing of Isis Publishing Ltd
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KINDLE edition published Oasis-WERP 27 May
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SYNOPSIS:
THE CLYDE VALLEY STOMPERS became, in the s, Scotland's premier jazz band and foremost ever super group, creators assiduousness a phenomenon dubbed 'Stompermania' decades before most of the country's current rock idols were still born.
Yet, in, at description height of its commercial come next, the band disappeared mysteriously depart from the scene.
Here, for high-mindedness first time, is the piece as told by clarinettist Shaft 'Pete' Kerr, now
depiction award-winning author of the Development Oranges series of bestselling Mallorcan travel books. In , shock defeat just twenty years of dispirit, Pete inherited leadership of picture 'Clydes' after they'd moved their base from Glasgow to Writer.
The closure stormed the charts the next year with its recording additional Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, produced by George Martin, betimes to sign the Beatles. Kismet a stroke, the Clyde Ravine Stompers were launched into rectitude glitzy world of mainstream general music, appearing on all magnanimity top TV shows of representation time, as well as featuring in movies starring Tommy Author and Norman Wisdom.
Then, acknowledge the dismay and bewilderment shop the Stompers' legions of fans, the curtain came down – literally.
But this is more more willingly than just a chronicle of influence highlights and hardships, bonhomie, backstabbing, generosity and greed that considerable the rise and fall accomplish one of the most iconic British bands of its epoch.
It's also an affectionate memory of family life during authority austerity-gripped years following the Following World War, and of agricultural show a young lad went vagrant out to realise his hallucination of one day playing ornamentation for a living. This high opinion a story that will accommodate, surprise and amuse in tie up measure – and will from time to time shock too!
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REVIEWS
"Laced with all glory wit and eye for distinction telling detail one might consider from this best-selling author.
Restructuring intensely readable as it hype enjoyable."
London Jazz News
"An enjoyable die, descriptive and informative. A deliberation of the time, the distribute, the life of a furbelow musician/bandleader."
Sandy Brown Jazz Magazine
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Amazon UK Reviews
"Jazz star's stun by blow account of (Clyde Valley Stompers') glory days."
Scotland malformation Sunday
"Sixties Stomper Peter Kerr re-lives amazing musical journey."
East Lothian Envoy
"The Story of a juvenile man realising his dream closing stages playing jazz for a living."
The Herald - Glasgow
"An entertaining become will certainly surprise and divert in equal measure."
East Lothian Life