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The Book
Sex & Violins - My Affair with Life, Love and Music
I honestly didn’t want to write this book but due to pressure from friends and music business associates I decided to put pen to paper. I am glad I did since it has given me the chance to mentally recreate and relive many of the highlights and low lights of my career in an industry that has been and still is my life.
The Sixties and Seventies were without a doubt the most prolific and exciting times musically and in a million other ways also. It just felt great to be alive!
I have deliberately devoted special attention to my parents and my early life because it was through the relationship with them and my brother in particular that I became what I am and what I eventually managed to achieve..
I have tried to tell my story in a fun yet ‘ down to earth’ sort of way embracing the reality of both happiness and tragedy so it is truly much more than just a documentary of names, dates, times and events.
Why Sex & Violins? Because for me music is sex and my life and my love is music!
Music “Soul Trek” - John Schroeder Orchestra” (Alaska Records)
I honestly didn’t want to write this book but due to pressure from friends and music business associates I decided to put pen to paper. I am glad I did since it has given me the chance to mentally recreate and relive many of the highlights and low lights of my career in an industry that has been and still is my life.
The Sixties and Seventies were without a doubt the most prolific and exciting times musically and in a million other ways also. It just felt great to be alive!
I have deliberately devoted special attention to my parents and my early life because it was through the relationship with them and my brother in particular that I became what I am and what I eventually managed to achieve..
I have tried to tell my story in a fun yet ‘ down to earth’ sort of way embracing the reality of both happiness and tragedy so it is truly much more than just a documentary of names, dates, times and events.
Why Sex & Violins? Because for me music is sex and my life and my love is music!
Music “Soul Trek” - John Schroeder Orchestra” (Alaska Records)
“Do you think the woodwind should have more reverb on them”
“I don’t know. You’re the bloody producer”
“He is not a He. He is a she and she is thirteen and a half years old. Her name is “Helen Shapiro”.
“Fortunately Berry Gordy, the President of Tamla Motown Records and I had something in common: we were both successful songwriters and that made for good conversation”
“Sir Lew looked at me and took a great big drag on his cigar and virtually blew it in my face as he stepped out of the lift. The message was clear: “Make money - or else!”
“One night I found my self sitting next to John Lennon”
“II always thought recording studios were used for recording not shagging”
“That’s right Benjie but John was recording but recording shagging”
“I remember sitting on an orange box listening to the skeleton of the arrangement of ‘ Pictures of Matchstick Men’
“I don’t know. You’re the bloody producer”
“He is not a He. He is a she and she is thirteen and a half years old. Her name is “Helen Shapiro”.
“Fortunately Berry Gordy, the President of Tamla Motown Records and I had something in common: we were both successful songwriters and that made for good conversation”
“Sir Lew looked at me and took a great big drag on his cigar and virtually blew it in my face as he stepped out of the lift. The message was clear: “Make money - or else!”
“One night I found my self sitting next to John Lennon”
“II always thought recording studios were used for recording not shagging”
“That’s right Benjie but John was recording but recording shagging”
“I remember sitting on an orange box listening to the skeleton of the arrangement of ‘ Pictures of Matchstick Men’
Publicist Sam Szczepanski contact
info@ivywoodproductions.com
info@ivywoodproductions.com
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