• Music Journalist And Historian Jenny Boyd Re-releases The Book Icons Of Rock In Their Own Words

  • Feb 22 2024
  • Length: 21 mins
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  • Jenny Boyd, 1960's fashion model, ex-wife of Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood and former sister-in-law of George Harrison and Eric Clapton, spent much of her life in the proximity of musical and cultural influencers. Her access allowed her to interview some of the world's most recognizable musicians regarding their thoughts about the creative process. Her new book Icons of Rock-In Their Own Words is a compendium that provides an intimate insight into how some the world's greatest musicians and producers created some of their greatest work. It will be published in the U.S. by Mango Publishing on February 13, 2024. Boyd originally conducted and compiled most of these revealing interviews as part of her Ph.D dissertation some 30 years ago. She talked with dozens of artists about how they made music and whether natural talent or external influences were the key factors in their work. Her research culminated in the acclaimed book Musicians in Tune that came out in the U.S. and Japan in 1992. In a major rewriting of the book, Icons of Rock is a testament in "write what you know," delving into the drive to create, the importance of nurturing creativity, the role of unconscious influences and the effects of chemicals, alcohol and drugs on the creative process. Among the music legends included are Eric Clapton, Julian Lennon, Don Henley, Keith Richard, Ringo Starr, Steve Winwood, Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Joni Mitchell, John Lee Hooker and many others. It also shines a light on the creative process of several artists who are no longer with us, among them George Harrison, David Crosby, Ravi Shankar, Warren Zevon and Christine McVie to whom she dedicates the new book. "I had spent the last twenty-something years surrounded by talented musicians and had watched them playing their instruments and creating songs," Boyd explains in the book's introduction. "I was immersed in their world and had witnessed their creative process first hand. Whether it was watching Paul, George and John sitting on the roof of our bungalow in India creating songs that were later to appear on The White Album, or Fleetwood Mac searching for lyrics in the communal house we shared in Hampshire, or sitting in the studio a few years later in Sausalito making their mega-hit album Rumours, it always left me wondering what it must feel like to be so creative." Rather than use portions of the 65 interviews in topical chapters as she had done previously, Boyd returned to the original transcripts of the interviews she conducted and has included them in their entirety under each of the artists' own name. She has also added interviews with four newer musicians-Eg White, Jacob Collier, Atticus Ross and Sarah Warwick-to illustrate the difference in the music world today compared to the late 1980's when her original interviews were conducted.

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