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ROCK FAMILY TREES
by Pete Frame
Published by Omnibus Press/Music Sales Ltd
Awarded five stars * * * * * by
Mojo magazine
“superb charts detailing every aspect of the case histories of various bands and genres”
Five stars * * * * *
at
Record Collector
“there’s simply no other chronicle in music so consummately researched or painstakingly executed; Frame’s personal touch and irrepressible humour obliterates any academic stuffiness.”
Kris Needs
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A new collection of Rock Family Trees which have never appeared in previous volumes.
The wide-ranging contents encompass the geographical (the rise of Grunge music in Seattle, bands from Canada), generic (a Creation label overview), ancient (28 different line-ups of the Drifters), specific (the Jesus & Mary Chain, Suede), revised versions of old favourites (Fleetwood Mac, Fairport Convention), the unexpected (Miles Davis), trees originally drawn for album sleeves and CD inserts (Steve Winwood, the Lyres), trees put together for record company publicity departments (Roger McGuinn, Chicken Shack), trees drawn for box sets (Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins), trees rescued from tour programmes (Eric Clapton), long overdue trees (Elton John, the Allman Brothers Band), the obscure (an exploration of Los Angeles surf bands in the early 60s), the arcane (Geoff Muldaur and Amos Garrett, Luxuria) and much more.
As the NME observed when discussing Pete Frame’s Rock Family Trees: “The sheer volume of work and detail must make it seem like monumental folly to the uninitiated, but likewise make it utterly absorbing to the fanatic.”
And as John Peel once concluded, the author suffers from a condition of “almost lunatic scholarship!”
