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Be Glad for the Song Has No Ending
(Revised and Expanded Edition)
By Adrian Whittaker
Published:
26 December 2023 A
wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and
ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from
the 1960s hippy scene.
Encyclopaedic in scope, passionate in tone, this book is a
minotaur's labyrinth of information about one of the most remarkable
groups in 20th century music. Be glad, for everything you need to
know is here. (Rob Young, The Wire)
First published in 2003 and long out
of print, Be Glad For The Song Has No Ending: An Incredible String
Band Compendium is the definitive book about the ISB. Containing a
wealth of interviews, essays, and ephemera from the band's brief but
tangled history, this new revised and expanded edition includes two
new pieces by ISB member Rose Simpson on Witchseason Productions'
idiosyncratic offices and on recording with the ISB in the Sound
Techniques studio, as well as interviews with Neil Tennant of Pet
Shop Boys, folk musician Alasdair Roberts, and Ossian Brown of Coil
and Cyclobe.
Contributors include Rowan Williamson
(former Archbishop of Canterbury), ISB manager and producer Joe
Boyd, Andy Roberts, Billy Connolly, and Raymond Greenoaken.
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