1967: Vacations In The Past LP with Autographed Postcard
Includes a postcard signed by Robyn Hitchcock.
Robyn Hitchcock is a rockânâroll surrealist. Born in London on March 3rd, 1953 he describes his songs as âpictures you can listen toâ. As much a child of Dali, De Chirico, and JG Ballard as of his 1960s musical heroes, he is a master of the absurd, reveling in the beauty of the unexpected. His first publicly visible band The Soft Boys (1976 - 81) has remained an influential art-rock touchstone for generations of musicians. âI just want to be an obscure cult fringe,â he told the NME in 1978; the NME didnât believe him, but heâs been true to his ambition. Without ever breaking the surface of pop culture Hitchcock has floated at a tangent to the mainstream for nearly 5 decades. His songs have been performed by REM, The Replacements, Neko Case, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Lou Barlow, Grant Lee Phillips, Sparklehorse, and Suzanne Vega with the Grateful Dead among others. A confirmed outsider, he nonetheless has devoted listeners around the world who attend his concerts, and also tune into the online streaming shows Robyn seasonally does with his wife, the singer Emma Swift. In 1996 he was the subject of Jonathan Demmeâs in-concert film, âStorefront Hitchcockâ. Robyn Hitchcock came of age in the 1960s when he attended Winchester College, an eccentric hothouse boarding school in the south of England. This is the subject of â1967â, which is both a memoir and an album, due for release in June this year. The memoir is a book â1967: How I Got There And Why I Never Leftâ, describing how the music of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and others drastically transformed the direction of his life when he left home for this strange new world. The companion record album â1967: Vacations In The Pastâ is a selection of the (mostly) hit songs of that year, re-recorded acoustically by Robyn with the help of some friends in Cambridge, San Francisco, and Sydney. He is currently preparing new material to release in 2025. âI like to keep busyâ, he says: âWe have all eternity to not existâ.
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Includes a postcard signed by Robyn Hitchcock.
Robyn Hitchcock is a rockânâroll surrealist. Born in London on March 3rd, 1953 he describes his songs as âpictures you can listen toâ. As much a child of Dali, De Chirico, and JG Ballard as of his 1960s musical heroes, he is a master of the absurd, reveling in the beauty of the unexpected. His first publicly visible band The Soft Boys (1976 - 81) has remained an influential art-rock touchstone for generations of musicians. âI just want to be an obscure cult fringe,â he told the NME in 1978; the NME didnât believe him, but heâs been true to his ambition. Without ever breaking the surface of pop culture Hitchcock has floated at a tangent to the mainstream for nearly 5 decades. His songs have been performed by REM, The Replacements, Neko Case, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Lou Barlow, Grant Lee Phillips, Sparklehorse, and Suzanne Vega with the Grateful Dead among others. A confirmed outsider, he nonetheless has devoted listeners around the world who attend his concerts, and also tune into the online streaming shows Robyn seasonally does with his wife, the singer Emma Swift. In 1996 he was the subject of Jonathan Demmeâs in-concert film, âStorefront Hitchcockâ. Robyn Hitchcock came of age in the 1960s when he attended Winchester College, an eccentric hothouse boarding school in the south of England. This is the subject of â1967â, which is both a memoir and an album, due for release in June this year. The memoir is a book â1967: How I Got There And Why I Never Leftâ, describing how the music of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and others drastically transformed the direction of his life when he left home for this strange new world. The companion record album â1967: Vacations In The Pastâ is a selection of the (mostly) hit songs of that year, re-recorded acoustically by Robyn with the help of some friends in Cambridge, San Francisco, and Sydney. He is currently preparing new material to release in 2025. âI like to keep busyâ, he says: âWe have all eternity to not existâ.
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