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Celebrating "the Green God"
This is a very comprehensive account of Peter Green's life in music from his earliest days until his untimely death in 2020. It gives you the inside story of his time with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Fleetwood Mac, and solo recordings all the way through to his final stage appearances.I enjoyed this book a lot. It is well researched, comprehensive and based on extensive interviews with Green himself and his closest family, friends and musical collaborators.If I have one complaint, it is that the book didn't give me a good feeling as to what Peter Green was actually like as a person. It tells you a fair amount about what Green did and what happened to him in his life, but you don't really get an understanding why or how it felt. There isn't much about Green's childhood for example, and relatively little too his life outside music or his wilderness years before returning to music.What there is about Green's life is fascinating though - from his desire to become a zookeeper, his work as a gravedigger and his stay on a kibbutz in Israel!A great book but maybe more about the man's music than the man himself - if indeed the two things can be separated!
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