“Éste no es un libro para músicos, ni tampoco para no músicos, sino más bien para la mente curiosa que desea descubrir los paralelismos entre la música y la vida…” Daniel Barenboim ,en estas páginas
Los años sesenta en España representaron el principio de una tímida apertura al exterior y del desarrollo turístico. La puritana sociedad de la época se escandalizaba por los primeros bikinis que lucian rubias alemanas y suecas con desparpajo. En medio de este nuevo paisaje urbano, nace en Madrid el que al poco tiempo seria considerado el tablao flamenco mas famoso del mundo: Las Brujas. Uno de sus socios fundadores, Francisco Dieguez, desenmaraña en este libro un precioso ovillo de recuerdos, tanto de las bailaoras, cantaores y guitarristas que pisaron las tablas de Las Brujas, como de los artistas nacionales e internacionales que gozaron de las inolvidables actuaciones, asi como del entregado publico que noche a noche disfruto de tanto arte junto.
Buddy Holly was killed at 22 when the plane he was travelling in crashed on 3 February 1959. Although this was less than two years after Holly's first hit record, Don McLean described this as 'the day the music died.' But Sonny Curtis, Holly's friend and musical colleague, told us that the music didn't die, because 'Buddy Holly lives every time you play rock'n'roll.' Fifty years after Holly's death his lasting influence on pop is clear; a musical based on his life seems set to run for longer than Holly was alive. The Beatles chose That'll Be the Dayby Buddy's group The Crickets as their first attempt at recording, as well taking inspiration for their name. Clearly, the music didn't die! John Gribbin, an ardent fan since he was 12 presents this labour of love written in the spirit of Sonny Curtis' lyric, as a celebration of Holly's all too brief life, and as an introduction, for all those not around in 1959, to the man and his astonishing musical legacy. It also includes - uniquely - a full and detailed account of every Holly recording session, which any Buddy fan will devour.
