Maybe I Should've Stayed in Bed? The Flip Side of the Rock 'n' Roll Dream - Softcover

Leonard, Deke

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900711095 ISBN 13: 9781900711098

Publisher: Northdown Publishing Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

MAYBE I SHOULD’VE STAYED IN BED The Flip Side Of The Rock’n’Roll Dream Maybe I Should’ve Stayed In Bed? charts Deke Leonard’s early years prior to joining Man in 1968. Initially a reluctant performer, encounters with Gene Vincent and Johnny Kidd awoke his ambitions to become a rock’n’roll star, though an early band was banned from Welsh venues for being ‘too sexy’. The provincial press held Deke’s troupe the Dream ‘responsible for the moral decay so evident in 1960s society’, while the Daily Mirror called them ‘the biggest freak-out to hit South Wales!’ The rock’n’roll dream seemed there for the taking, so they broke up, scattering to the four corners of Swansea before re-grouping more successfully as Man. But that’s another story, as told in Leonard’s first book Rhinos, Winos & Lunatics! Written with a humour rarely seen in rock biographies, it is a fascinating social commentary on Wales in the 1960s. Now back in print after several years unavailable.

About this title

Synopsis

This is a descriptive account of Roger "Deke" Leonard's teenage experiences in South Wales which inspired him to become a rock star.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northdown Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1900711095
• ISBN 13: 9781900711098
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240