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Spencer Leigh Author Of Little Richard: Send Me Some Lovin'

From Spencer's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Author Popular music historian and researcher

Spencer's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Spencer Leigh Why Spencer loves this book

I have loved the three previous volumes of Michael Palin's diaries. He is way behind though as this only covers 1999 to 2009 so we will have to wait some more years for his thoughts on Covid.
Without even trying, he comes across as such a thoughtful, deeply caring person with strongly held views.
I was very moved by his affectionate portrait of a dying George Harrison and there are some telling insights.
I enjoyed reading about his relationships with the other Pythons who have difficulty agreeing on anything.
Michael Palin leads an extraordinary life and loves to share it. But too many people are refrerred to by initials. Okay, they are identified at the start, but surely the reader shouldn't have to refer back to see who they are. Maybe I should remmeber but you can't really read diaries in one sitting and you don't remember such things. Anyway…

By Michael Palin ,

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1 author picked There and Back as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

THE FOURTH VOLUME OF MICHAEL PALIN'S BESTSELLING DIARIES

A new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing his confidence, doubts creeping in about his abilities as a writer, the death of his great friend George Harrison and the last of his children leaving home, the dawn of the twenty-first century sees Michael at his most reflective yet.

Over the next ten years, we watch through Michael's eyes as the world reels from the successive shocks of September 11, the 7/7 bombings and the global financial crash. With the warmth and gentle empathy…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of Willie, Waylon, and the Boys: How Nashville Outsiders Changed Country Music Forever

Spencer Leigh Author Of Little Richard: Send Me Some Lovin'

From Spencer's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Why am I passionate about this?

Author Popular music historian and researcher

Spencer's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Spencer Leigh Why Spencer loves this book

I have loved Willie and Waylon and Johnny Cash and Kris Kiristofferson for years and this is a fabulous book on how they all came together as the Highwaymen and made highly successful appearances and albums.
It's tremendous that the author can really take you backstage and the interactions between the four musicians is both hilarious and revealing. For example, before I read this book I assumed that Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson would be the best of buddies ...but they're not.
Some great one-liners. When the singers were on a health kick, harmonica player Mickey Raphael said, "Willie's lost six ounces."
When Kris Kristofferson moved to Nashiville, he got a letter from his mother telling not to associate with "that durg fiend Johnny Cash". Kris showed the letter to Johnny who said, "It's always nice to ge a letter from hiome."
And when they got Country Song of the…

By Brian Fairbanks ,

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1 author picked Willie, Waylon, and the Boys as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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The tragic and inspiring story of the leaders of Outlaw country and their influence on today's Alt-Country and Americana superstars, tracing a path from Waylon Jennings' survival on the Day the Music Died through to the Highwaymen and on to the current creative and commercial explosion of Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Tyler Childers, Jason Isbell, and the Highwomen

On February 2, 1959, Waylon Jennings, bassist for his best friend, the rock star Buddy Holly, gave up his seat on a charter flight. Jennings, 21, joked that he hoped the plane, leaving without him, would crash. When it did, killing all…


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