This lively, colourful read charts the rise of an unlikely bunch of musicians as they head from small-town venues to the glitter and gleam of fame in LA. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize and lives in Ireland. This is the story of the band's brief, blazing journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land of America, just when the Summer of Love was receding into something much darker - a multi-faceted tale of dreams, drugs, love, sexuality, madness and grief of stardom's wobbly ladder and fame's Faustian pact and of the collision between youthful idealism and jaded reality as the Sixties drew to a close.Ībove all, this bewitching novel celebrates the power of music to connect across divides, define an era and thrill the soul.ĭavid Mitchell's seven novels include Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.
The band produced only two albums in two years, yet their musical legacy lives on. Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never heard of.Įmerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together created a unique sound, with lyrics that captured their turbulent lives and times. The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS, 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' ( Independent).
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