I Was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-child: And Other Stories of Rock N' Roll Excess

by DARLINGTON ANDREW

• ISBN13: 9781900486170
• ISBN10: 1900486172
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Scb Distributors

Summary

Andy Darlington has been interviewing Rock's luminaries and legends for several decades-spurred on as a child in the late-sixties by testosterone, the napalm that was Elvis and hopes to bed hippie chicks. I Was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-Child collects together his timeless and engaging conversations with a diverse selection of artists and band members, amongst whom are included: Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, Country Joe McDonald, Grace Slick, Kraftwerk, Cabaret Voltaire, The Byrds, Can, The Kinks, Mott The Hoople, The Fall, Siouxie And The Banshees, The Stone Roses, and Skunk Anansie.

Author Biography

Andrew Darlington has been interviewing Rock's luminaries and legends for several decades -- spurred on as a child in the late-sixties by testosterone, the napalm that was Elvis and hopes to bed hippie chicks

Table of Contents

foreword fractured art/splintered stories	7	(2)
Michael Butterworth
introduction I was Elvis Presley's bastard love-child	9	(8)
leftfield get electrified	17	(8)
joe meek death of 'the telstar man'	25	(12)
the kinks Dave Davies: the kink that time forgot	37	(14)
the byrds Gene Clark: stranger than known	51	(8)
fleetwood mac Peter Green: splintered	59	(16)
country joe & the fish return of the superbird	75	(10)
jefferson airplane Grace slick: better living through chemistry	85	(20)
led zeppelin Robert Plant: heavy plant crossing	105	(14)
kraftwerk Ralf Hutter comes to say hello to the machine spirit	119	(14)
mott the hoople Ian Hunter: it's a long way	133	(10)
can Holger Czukay: on the way to the peak of the hyper normal	143	(12)
siouxsie & the banshees mad-eyed screamers of the twilight zone	155	(10)
the fall Mark E smith: the man whose head expanded?	165	(10)
cabaret voltaire despatches from silicon valley	175	(16)
stone roses into the new stone age	191	(12)
skunk anansie revenge of the skunks	203	(8)
radio annie nightingale at the wicked speed of sound	211	(8)
thoughts & words my back pages	219	(1)
Index	220