White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s

The essential memoir from legendary producer who knew Dylan, Nick Drake, Pink Floyd and many more

The New York Times - Dave Itzkoff

Most music-industry memoirs that aspire to "Zelig"-like levels of synchronicity read like Forrest Gump, with narrators witnessing or facilitating one crucial moment after the next, until the whole enterprise makes your teeth ache like a box of chocolates. 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.

Record and film producer Joe Boyd was born in Boston in 1942, and was the producer of Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, REM and many others. He produced the documentary 'Jimi Hendrix' and the film 'Scandal'. In 1980 he started Hannibal Records and ran it for 20 years. Boyd lives in London.