Ticket to Ride - Softcover

Graham Sclater

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954594576 ISBN 13: 9780954594572

Publisher: Flame Books Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Graham Sclater, the author of this book, spent much of the sixties living and working as a musician in Hamburg. 'Ticket to Ride' is an account of some of the events that many English groups experienced and wished to forget. It is dedicated to the many musicians who failed to survive the trauma and returned to England. During the mid-sixties, at the peak of the English group scene in Germany, dozens of groups made the short trip across the English Channel to northern Europe in search of fame and fortune. This novel follows the exploits of a naive under-age five-piece group from the South West of England as they make the futile search for success in Germany. Although they set out to follow the path of the Beatles, they soon fall deep into the world that their contemporaries were fortunate enough to escape. Based predominantly on the Reeperbahn, the Red Light district of Hamburg, the group is soon dragged down, their lives affected forever by the everyday world of prostitution, sex, drugs and violence, resulting in a total breakdown of the values that they once believed in. Realising too late that they have no way out, the story charts their desperation and untimely failure.

About this title

About the Author:

Graham Sclater lived and worked as a musician in Hamburg and touring Germany for much of the sixties playing Hammond organ before working as a session musician playing with artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Elton John, James Taylor, Ritchie Blackmore, Christine Perfect and many more. In 1976 he formed Tabitha Music Limited a music publisher and record label where he produced numerous albums which were released around the world. Still very active in the music business in 2011 he signed Bo Walton and since then has released several singles and his "Hit" album "Waiting on a dream." Graham has written a number of screenplays and TV series and published three novels to date and "Ticket to Ride" has been reissued in 2012 following its original publication by Flame Books back in 2006. This extended version contains photographs, interviews and reviews of the book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Flame Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0954594576
• ISBN 13: 9780954594572
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 307