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Just seen this advertised and wondered if anyone has read it yet ?

Working my way through it. It's a huge tome - lots of text - no pics.

crammed with info. report back more fully later.

Rob

Many thanks Rob!!

I'd love this book as i don't know very much about the Shads recording sessions. I checked Amazon but it was out of stock.

Brought it at shadowmania, full of interesting facts. Useful book to have.

Leo's Den have it, I'll have to bite the bullet and get one.

I bought it at Shadowmania and it's a very useful addition to all the Malcolm Campbell books that've been published.

I felt that the book has been put together rather hastily though and (at the author's suggestion) I will be letting him have a list of errors that I've noticed (mainly typos), at some point in the future. One thing that I was really surprised about is that although the book has apparently all new recordings up to 31st August 2011, there is no mention of Rollercaster Records' 10-inch album of early Cliff and The Drifters' recordings.

Having said that the level of detail about some of the recordings is quite remarkable and must have taken hundreds of hours of research...

Martin.

It is excellent. Inevitably there are errors & I too am compiling a list to send to Vic Rust (son of the UK doyen of session research - especially Jazz - Brian Rust) - as he requests at the beginning of the book. It is a monumental book & what Vic has done is to build upon all of the years of research & previously published chronologies / session research / histories previously published by: Cliff himself, the Shads themselves, Malcolm Addey, Mike Read, Pete Lewry, Nigel Goodall, Malcolm Campbell, Bruce Welch, Les Woosey, myself & many others. Naturally - this is acknowledged to some degree. However, it can't be denied that Vic has 'synthesised' all of the available information and forged it into a very well informed whole overview. As such - it's first - class. Not only does it include the Shads recordings - but everything they did with Cliff too. As I said - it's going to take quite a while to get through its 572 text - crammed pages!

Rob

Many thanks for the kind words in your preliminary review, Rob.

As Martin noted, I had not included the 10-inch Rollercoaster disc but only because monitors of releases of Cliff and Shads/Drifters stuff didn't pick it up. Not an excuse but it will be added later on (and apologies for the unfortunate omission).

On the subject of availability on Amazon, you can order it (it's print on demand rather than picking from stock) from them. I also have a limited stock that I have added to Amazon too.

captainhaddock wrote:Just seen this advertised and wondered if anyone has read it yet ?

Just received it from Leo's Den, but it will take some time to read it !...

Didier