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The great eccentric of British psychedelia?beloved by everyone from Led Zeppelin and R.E.M. to the late Jonathan Demme?pens a singularly unique childhood memoir . . . Memoirists rarely begin their work with a stroke of genuine inspiration, and Robyn Hitchcocks ingenious idea to limit his account...

Hitchcock's second memoir explores the formation of his seminal 1970s band the Soft Boys, and the obsessions that fuelled his early creative output 'British singer-songwriter Hitchcock wistfully reflects on boarding school and the music that shaped him in this captivating chronicle of the year...

1967 explores how that pivotal slice of time tastes to a bright, obsessive/compulsive boy who is shipped off to a hothouse academic boarding school as he reaches the age of 13; just as Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited starts to bite, and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...