Graeme Edge The Moody Blues, Cyril TaylorCarr
Graeme Edge The Moody Blues, Cyril TaylorCarr
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Graeme Edge The Moody Blues
Remembering A Legend

Author: Cyril Taylor-Carr

Narrator: Cyril Taylor-Carr

Unabridged: 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/17/2022


Synopsis

Graeme Edge was born on 30th March 1941 in Rochester, Staffordshire. His mother was a pianist for the silent movies and his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all music-hall singers.

Edge trained as a draughtsman but soon went into music full time. He never started out to be a drummer, he was, in fact the manager of a group called the Blue Rhythm Band. Graeme always watched the drummer in the group and fooled around on the drums, but never really drummed professionally until that drummer quit and he had to fill in. He then bought his first drum kit.

The first band he formed was the Silhouettes followed by The Blue Rhythm Band. He then helped to form Gerry Levene and the Avengers, who recorded a single for Decca, and appeared on TV in "Thank Your Lucky Stars". Following the collapse of this group in April 1964 Edge formed The R & B Preachers, which included Denny Laine and Clint Warwick. When that group disbanded the three of them linked up with Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder to form The M & B 5, which later changed its name to The Moody Blues.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeff on September 25, 2013

These smart, incisive, and probing reviews of the NYC 1980s performance scene seem like dispatches from another lifetime. Cynthia Carr proves an ideal guide to this wild terrain, an adventurous critic with a well-honed bullshit detector. "On Edge" brims with colorful accounts of extreme events featu......more

Goodreads review by Ida on October 04, 2007

fantastic. conversational. juicy. informative. fascinating. Assigned reading in my experimental performance history class taught by Keith Hennessy. Need I say more...?......more

Goodreads review by Christine on December 11, 2009

Wow. Carr has completely changed the way I think and write about performance art during the culture wars and its relationship to race and gender. Absolutely empowering.......more

Goodreads review by Florian on February 21, 2020

Really in-depth research of the performance art field.......more

Goodreads review by Monica on July 14, 2012

Now I know what I missed out on when I was in my 20s.......more