The writer, January 2009
My book published November 2007, Beach Boys vs Beatlemania: Rediscovering Sixties Music, could turn your view of the Sixties upside down. It contains a foreword by Fred Vail, early promoter and co-manager of the Beach Boys. But it’s not just about the Beach Boys and the Beatles. The book fits into my constant theme: debunking accepted ‘facts’ obvious to society at large and erecting an alternative view.
I’m gratified that the book has risen as high as #23 on Amazon.com’s Music History & Criticism sales ranking; #8 on Amazon-Canada’s ranking in the same category, and #7 in its Performing Arts books. It’s a rivetting 448 pages and can be ordered for as cheap as $17.75 through your local independent bookstore as well as all the biggies, Borders, Books-a-Million, Barnes & Noble–or Amazon.co.uk or Tesco’s for you Brits.
During 2008 I commenced writing a pair of inexpensive companion books, 10 Big Lies We Tell Ourselves and 10 Big Lies We Tell Our Kids, which between them get many of my gripes about modern Western society off my chest. As of late April 2009, following the death of my mother, I have been busy on the story of how her family was exiled to a South Sea paradise — and the trouble a typical Yank family had fitting in.
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G. A. (Gary) De Forest
Gary: We would love to cross post many of these great extracts on our website
babyboomreview.com if you are interested and perhaps we can arrange
some reciprocal links.
Thanks
Could i please use some of your photos for a powerpoint about the beatles that i am doing for my I.T. GCSE in school.
Hi Hannah
Yes, use the photos. Go for it.
G. A.
Hi Hannah
Hope you’re reading this. Yes, feel free to use any photos. I didn’t get authorisation to use any of them, but who’s going to begrudge use of them for educational purposes? Nobody I hope.
Gary D