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With apologies for those getting this
message more than once, here's an update
on the Hawkwind biography that I've been
working on:
Title is Hawkwind - Sonic Assassins,
publisher SAF Publishing Ltd, release
date 31st July 2004, UK 25, US $40,
hardcover.
Amazon are now listing the book on their
UK site (I understand it will be on their
US site really soon) with a pretty
generous pre-publication discount offer
running. SAF will have it on their own
website in the next few days:
www.safpublishing.com - that's well worth
a visit anyway, their current list has
books on Morrissey, Mountain, Coil, Devo,
Focus and many others - they've also
published works on Kraftwerk and
Tangerine Dream.
As it stands, it's 115,000 words of
biography, anecdote, critique, song
inspirations etc. There's been over 40
new interviews conducted with the current
band, past members, "friends &
relations", and other associates. We also
have a great selection of photographs,
many of which have been rarely - if ever
- published before, and we have a cover
image licensed from Peter Pracownik.
SAF's publicity sheet describes the book
as an "authoritative, high quality
biography ... loaded with new interviews
and rare illustrations", about a band
that "have successfully existed outside
the traditional music business... space
hippies, proto punks and music
cybernauts".
So, I think it's going to be a terrific
package, from a specialist music
publisher run by people who love their
music and produce really good quality
books.
Regards
Ian Abrahams
ian@abrahamsi.freeserve.co.uk
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