Joe Boyd's classic memoir of the 60s music scene reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic, with a new foreword by Hanif Kureishi

A memoir from a man present at the birth of modern rock and the author of And the Roots of Rhythm Remain, praised by Robert Plant, Brian Eno and more 'From Dylan to Pink Floyd, Boyd was there and can remember it all' Daily Express When Muddy Waters came to London in the early '60s, Joe Boyd was his tour manager. When Dylan went electric at the Newport Festival, Joe Boyd was plugging in his guitar. When it was the summer of love, Joe Boyd was running the coolest club in London, the UFO. When a bunch of club regulars called Pink Floyd recorded their first single, Joe Boyd was the producer. When a young songwriter named Nick Drake wanted to give his demo tape to someone, he chose Joe Boyd. More than any previous '60s music autobiography, Joe Boyd's White Bicycles offers the real story of what it was like to be there at the time. As well as the '60s heavy-hitters, this book also offers wonderfully vivid portraits of a whole host of other musicians. His greatest coup is bringing to life the famously elusive figure of Nick Drake - the first time he's been written about by anyone who knew him well. 'Profound ... and beyond' Robert Plant

"Gloriously entertaining ... even those unfamiliar with back catalogues and B-sides will be intrigued by Boyd's ability to dish the dirt" - Observer

"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." - The New York Times

"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

"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" - Courier Mail, Brisbane Australia

"From Dylan to Pink Floyd, Boyd was there and luckily for us, he can remember it all" - Daily Express

"Whenever anything musically noteworthy occurred in the 60s, Joe Boyd was probably nearby ... White Bicycles bursts with rollicking anecdotes, eyewitness accounts and canny observations about politics and youth ... Boyd guides us through the decade with keen ears and restless intellectual curiosity" - Pitchfork

"Boyd's book And the Roots of Rhythm Remain is the Proust of music history - à la recherche of much music lost, here regained and affirmed in our present" - Observer