Hollywood Dream, the Thunderclap Newman Story: Pete Townshend, a Band of Outsiders, and the Birth of British Indie Music
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Hollywood Dream, the Thunderclap Newman Story: Pete Townshend, a Band of Outsiders, and the Birth of British Indie Music
"We were the best worst band. We died but we died in style." - Speedy Keen
Thunderclap Newman stunned the music world in the summer of 1969 with the success of their wonderfully odd debut single 'Something In The Air', which ousted none other than the Beatles from the top of the charts. They followed up with an LP described by Nik Cohn as "one of the finest, most truly bizarre albums of the era"...
Pete Townshend is the guitarist and principal songwriter for The Who.
Mark Wilkerson was born in Birmingham, England, in the same year that Thunderclap Newman entered the world. He has written acclaimed biographies of Pete Townshend (2008) and Tomas Young (2016), and coauthored the official Pearl Jam retrospective and New York Times bestseller Pearl Jam 20 (2011). He lives with his wife, Melissa,...
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