Rock 'n' Roll Book Club ft/ special guests
Paul Morley & John Altman

STAGE - St John's Church Hall
TIMINGS - TBC

We are delighted to welcome back our wonderful friends and neighbours Rock 'n' Roll Book Club to host two very special book talks with a pair of iconic music legends.

PAUL MORLEY
'Love Magic Power Danger Bliss: YOKO ONO and the Avant-Garde Diaspoa'

The story of the twentieth-century avant-garde is a story of resistance, of the outsider, of strangeness, of individual freedom, of rejecting the ordinary and overcoming marginalisation through self-invention. It is also a story that can be told through the prism of one of its most renowned figureheads: Yoko Ono.

JOHN ALTMAN
'Hidden Man: My Many Musical Lives'

John Altman is one of the most prolific composers, conductors and arrangers in history and his saxophone playing has been heard live and on record with many great names. His scores include such well-known film sequences as 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' and the ship sinking in Titanic. He has composed the music for over 50 movies,

As an arranger/conductor he worked on hit records for numerous stars, among them Rod Stewart, George Michael, Tina Turner, Barry White, Diana Ross, Bjork, and Alison Moyet. He also mentored the young Amy Winehouse. As a saxophonist, flautist and clarinet player he has performed with an equally stellar list of musicians.

Come hear John tell you how Ingrid Bergman smiled at his back; how a Beatle always greeted him by singing one of his musical phrases; how he tried in vain to persuade Nick Drake to continue performing in public; how he reduced Freddy Mercury to helpless laughter; how he got Pierce Brosnan his big movie break; how he sat with Charlie Chaplin watching a movie that hadn't been seen for a quarter of a century (with a running commentary from the great man himself); how he sang over a mobile phone to James Cameron and the cast of Titanic; how he inspired a five-year-old George Michael to become a musician; how he was the Wailers' tour guide around London, and how Tina Turner made him a cup of tea!