FIT LIKE, NEW YORK?
by Peter Innes
ISBN 1 901300 02 1 £10.95 Paperback
The history of rock music in Aberdeen and North East Scotland (with a fair bittie about The Dons as well)

"An amazing A-Z of music down five decades, tracing the roots of rock from the jive era, skiffle, beat, blues, soul, punk, heavy metal and thrash ceilidh. Encounters with Hendrix, Cream, Beck, Page, Costello, Elton John, and an unknown combo who were yet to decide on The Beatles as their name. Local Granite City heroes include Lord Rockingham, guitarist extrodinaire Billy Bremner, Davie Flett and Speedy King of Manfred Mann's Earthband, The Sutherland Brothers, chart-topper Jim Diamond, proto-Pict fungos Spiggy Topes, The Shamen, Geneva. . . A royal command performance for Prince Moulay Abdullah of Morocco, on-the-road mayhem from Munich to Melbourne."

From the author: "This book was inspired by those 1961 Bo Diddley 45s that my Uncle Charlie played me (Charlie is the guy on the front cover left, with the serious winkle-pickers, hair to fry chips in, and a sneer that was feared throughout Aberdeen), from seeing "THE TSARS" scrawled on walls in the town in 1963, and from seeing the heroic Dons beaten in the Summer Cup Final at floodlit Pittodrie: my life's journey was settled that year.

RECORD COLLECTOR: "A fascinating tale, recounted with great research" DAILY MAIL: "An early close call in the Beatles' career is revealed in this new book recording 40 years of rock history in the north of Scotland" MOJO: "A wonderfully researched social history" SELECT: "It really hits the spot. Grand Royal written by Rab C Nesbitt" UGLY THINGS (SAN DIEGO): "Terrific tales. A work of entertainment rather than a textbook, and I prefer it that way" KEEP ON RUNNING: "Add it to your collection!" VOX: "Wide ranging and funny" SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY: "Like all the best music books, it is determined to leave no trivia unmentioned. A remarkable slice of social history, an important insight on pop culture" JOHN O'GROATS JOURNAL: "Informative, revealing and amusing" THE RED FINAL: "Deserves to be read by anyone remotely interested in music" NORTHERN SCOT: "An inspiring read with frightening attention to detail" THE BIG ISSUE: "Enthusiasm and humour from a self-confessed bloody anorak THE LIST: "He allows his tongue freedom to move in and out of cheek at will" THE BEAT GOES ON: "A strong spirit and sense of humour runs throughout, revealing gossip about well-known names that I, for one, had certainly not heard before." ROCK 'n' REEL: "He's intimidatingly well-informed but he wears it with sly and entertaining humour."

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