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Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970
Author(s): David Browne (Author)
- Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
- Publication Date: 31 May 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 392 pages
- ISBN-10: 0306818507
- ISBN-13: 9780306818509
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Editorial Reviews
Review
“(H)ow on earth can there be anything more to say about The Beatles, James Taylor or the individual components that formed CSNY? The answer is… quite a lot, as it happens. At least, quite a lot David Browne’s skilful hands… Browne is an excellent writer and tells this story very well…”
–The Record Collector
“This tight but varied focus and Browne’s prose make for an engaging take on a year which included the Beatles’ splitting up.”
–The Metro
“(Browne’s) attention to detail lends this compelling book a depth and richness rarely found in rock biography.”
–Financial Times
“This tight but varied focus and Browne’s prose make for an engaging take on a year which included the Beatles’ splitting up.”
–Metro
“The welter of detail that Browne has amassed about (the bands) intertwined lives is truly astonishing – you will be repeatedly gobsmacked at what you didn’t know about the chemistry and the chemicals… (Fire & Rain is) a riveting portrayal of the various musical, social and political strands that made 1970 such a tumultuous year in America.”
–Classic Rock
“As a reporter, Browne is dogged and earnest; as a profile writer, crisp and professional. As Fire & Rain jaunts from London to Laurel Canyon, Browne drops in memorable details…”
–The Scotsman
“(A) decent historical account of that year’s events…Through numerous interviews and painstaking research, Browne has built up a forensic picture of these 12 months, and allows us to become flies on the wall at recording sessions, band meetings, public appearances and backstage at concerts.”
–The Irish Times
“Fire and Rain succeeded in … send(ing) me back to albums – CSN&Y’s Déjà Vu, Taylor’s Sweet Baby James, S&G’s Bridge Over Troubled Water – that had lain undisturbed through half a lifetime. For all the instability and over-indulgence of the times in which they were produced, they turn out to have aged, in the main, surprisingly well.”
–Guardian
