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Informationen zum Autor Since the 1970s! Mick Houghton has written on music for various publications including Sounds ! Time Out and! more recently! Mojo and Uncut . He worked as a PR at Warner Brothers! before setting up his own agency! Brassneck Publicity! where he's represented artists such as Echo & the Bunnymen! Julian Cope! Spiritualized! Bert Jansch! Richard Thompson! and the KLF. As one of the Grammy-nominated compilers of the box set Forever Changing: The Golden Age of Elektra Records! 1963-1973 ! he went on to write the critically acclaimed Becoming Elektra: The True Story of Jac Holzman's Visionary Record Label ! published in 2010. He lives in London. Klappentext The definitive biography of Sandy Denny! one of the most influential folk rock artists of all time. Now in paperback. Zusammenfassung After leaving Fairport she formed Fotheringay, whose influential eponymous album was released in 1970, before collaborating on a historic one-off recording with Led Zeppelin - the only other vocalist to record with Zeppelin in their entire career - and releasing four solo albums across the course of the decade.
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I've Always Kept a Unicorn is rich in insight from those who loved and despaired of her. While never over-embroidering the story, Houghton builds it through the intelligent and sensitive recall of everyone from Thompson to the Guardian's Richard Williams. The Guardian
