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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Granary was built in 1869 and the 10 storey building is the perfect example of Bristol Byzantium architecture. In 1968 it became a jazz club started by jazz musician Acker Bilk. Later on it was part owned by international yachtsman Tony Bullimore. On the British club circuit it was on a par with the ?Marquee? in London and ?Mothers? in Birmingham and featured the major groups on the music scene throughout the Seventies and Eighties including DIRE STRAITS ROBERT PLANT YES GENESIS THIN LIZZY SUPERTRAMP IRON MAIDEN DEF LEPPARD SLADE STATUS QUO MOTORHEAD GARY MOORE JUDAS PRIEST MOTT THE HOOPLE ELKIE BROOKS ROBERT PALMER and hundreds of local national and international rock bands. The author Al Read has spent a lifetime as part of the city?s entertainment scene. He started what was probably Bristol?s first pop music club in 1957 at the age of 15 in Filton. After playing and singing with several local groups he became a member of progressive band East of Eden giving himself the claim to fame of being the lead singer with a band whose only hit was an instrumental. Along with three colleagues he started promoting rock events at the Granary in 1969. After the others had moved on Al stayed at the Granary booking the entertainments and acting as DJ. Al also joined BBC Radio Bristol in 1976 and was one of their team of presenters for 16 years. In 1999 Al came across a pile of old files containing details for every band that played at the Granary in the early years and the basis of the book was formed. It is the result of four years of research into the musicians artists and general music freaks who grew out of the place. It catalogues how virtually everyone apart from David Bowie and Pink Floyd tripped on the steps of the tiny wooden stage at one time or another. It’s a trail through a dozen music genres from jazz and blues through progressive and heavy rock via pub rock high energy R&B new wave and punk. “The Granary Club – The Rock Years”chronologically details all the bands that played at the Granary and how much they were paid plus photographs visuals and memorabilia along with anecdotes from the artists and the club members. Read it and weep for the years of your youth! (SP)