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4 days ago · Robyn Hitchcock in 2007 via Wikimedia Commons. A review of 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left by Robyn Hitchcock, 224 pages, Constable (June 2024). He’s never had a major hit, he’s never been awarded a gold record, and he’ll probably never get into the Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame.
16 hours ago · Hitchcock noted that, while The Beatles split up into four less impactful solo artists, Bob Dylan would have found splitting up with himself harder than persevering with his career through thick and thin. Though Dylan’s mid-1960s heyday was invaluable to Hitchcock’s success, his favourite album, Time Out Of Mind, arrived some three decades ...
5 days ago · Robyn Hitchcock, psychedelic singer-songwriter, recounts his life in a private boarding school learning about life and music in 1967.
4 days ago · Robyn Hitchcock is a rock ’n’ roll surrealist. Born in London in 1953, he describes his songs as “pictures you can listen to.” As much a child of Dalí, de Chirico, and J.G. Ballard as of his 1960s musical heroes, he is a master of the absurd, reveling in the beauty of the unexpected.
2 days ago · Robyn Hitchcock was a young impressionable lad of 14, marking time as an ‘inmate’ at the boys-only institution Winchester College when he discovered Bob Dylan, participated in a ‘happening’ with Brian Eno, and ultimately realized his future with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
4 days ago · When he arrives in January 1966 Robyn Hitchcock is still a boy pining for the comforts of home and his family's loving au pair, Teresa. By December 1967 he's mutated into a 6'2 tall rabid Bob Dylan fan, whose two ambitions in life are to get really stoned and move to Nashville. In between?as the hippie revolution blossoms in the world outside ...
1 day ago · 1,879 likes, 77 comments - robynhitchcockofficial on July 5, 2024: "Nick Lowe always seems to me like my slightly more sensible older brother. I met him in 1977 when the Soft Boys supported Elvis Costello at the Nashville Rooms in London: I picked up his discarded Senior Service cigarette from the floor and lit my own roll-up from it.
