{"title":"Books by John Einarson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781916829121","title":"Forever Changes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWidely hailed as a genius, Arthur Lee was a character every bit as colorful and unique as his music.\u003c\/b\u003e In 1966, he was Prince of the Sunset Strip, busy with his pioneering racially mixed band, Love, and accelerating the evolution of California folk-rock by infusing it with jazz and orchestral influences, a process that would climax in a timeless masterpiece, the Love album \u003ci\u003eForever Changes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShaped by a Memphis childhood and a South Los Angeles youth, Lee always craved fame. He would achieve his ambition with a mixture of vaulting talent and colossal chutzpah. Drug use and a reticence to tour were his Achilles heels, and he succumbed to a dissolute lifestyle just as superstardom was beckoning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite endorsements from the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, Lee’s subsequent career was erratic and haunted by the shadow of \u003ci\u003eForever Changes\u003c\/i\u003e, reaching a nadir with his imprisonment in 1996 for a firearms offence. Redemption followed, culminating in an astonishing postmillennial comeback that found him playing \u003ci\u003eForever Changes\u003c\/i\u003e to adoring, multi-generational fans around the world. This upswing was only interrupted by his untimely death from leukemia in 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with the full consent and cooperation of Arthur’s widow, Diane Lee, \u003ci\u003eForever Changes\u003c\/i\u003e is a meticulously researched biography that includes lengthy extracts from Arthur’s vivid, comic, and poignant memoirs, published here for the first time. Author John Einarson has also amassed dozens of new interviews with the surviving members of Love and with many others who fell into the incomparable Lee’s flamboyant orbit. This updated edition adds a new foreword by Love’s co-founder and lead guitarist, Johnny Echols.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44581765972146,"sku":"9781916829121","price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781916829121_9578a48b-4b7c-4a75-a3f0-3de05830bfcb.jpg?v=1786030209"},{"product_id":"9780879307936","title":"Mr. Tambourine Man","description":"MR. 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Dobson spent decades battling to regain what was rightfully her song alone.  Take Me For A Walk In The Morning Dew tells the fascinating story of a naive young folksinger from Toronto who grew up poor in a fractured family living in government housing. Gifted with a soaring soprano voice and a passion for traditional folk music, Dobson began her career in North America, where she released a half-dozen albums and appeared at all the major folk music venues including Gerde s Folk City in Greenwich Village, rubbing shoulders there with an unsigned Bob Dylan. She later moved to Britain to follow her heart and soon found herself being tapped to perform with the BBC. Now an octogenarian, Dobson continues to write and record new music. Her 2025 album Dreams, recorded with the rootsy British group The Hanging Stars, was hailed far and wide, while her live performances continue to dazzle.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57510220398965,"sku":"9781916829343","price":16.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781916829343.jpg?v=1787130557"},{"product_id":"from-born-to-be-wild-to-dazed-and-confused","title":"From Born to Be Wild to Dazed and Confused","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmerging from a period of protest and social unrest, 1968 was the year that ushered in gut-punching sounds that would define classic and hard rock\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe formation of bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath rolled away the light sounds of psychedelic music and Flower Power. Celebrated music journalist \u0026amp; author John Einarson provides the first detailed account of this crucial period. He examines the birth of psychedelic music and experimentation beginning in 1965 and the resultant Summer of Love, showing how The Who and The Jimi Hendrix Experience planted the seeds for the harder rock sounds at The Monterey Pop Festival. Music and popular culture always reflect prevailing social and political conditions, and 1968 was no exception. Events like the Tet Offensive, student protests around the world, the My Lai massacre, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. 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