Happy Boys Happy by Uli Twelker - 1998-06-01

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Very Good.

Sanctuary Publishing, June 1998. Trade Paperback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Sanctuary Publishing, 1997. 318pp, b/w illustrated. Blue and b/w photographic covers with title in blue and black to white spine. Some shelfwear, corners slightly creased.. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Review
A superbly ironic title for a rock history with more than its fair share of sadness. Based on candid interviews with Steve Marriott, Ronnie Lane and Peter Frampton, the switchback ups and downs of the lives and careers of these three totally original and consummately professional musicians are covered with humour, pathos and incredible detail. Kenney Jones, Jim Leverton and other longtime sidekicks fill out the picture.The two German authors write in impeccable English about their British rock heroes, demonstrating their encyclopaedic knowledge of the sixties-to-eighties band scene, its myriad personnel changes, and its recordings both famous and obscure. It's like a combination of a Pete Frame family tree expressed as text, interleaved with Dave Marsh reviews of every album produced by the Marriott/Lane/Frampton axis.The story covers the three main protagonists' careers from their childhoods to the time of writing (mid 1990s), and includes not only the high and happy times of The Small Faces,… Read More