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HOGGIN’ THE PAGE

GROUNDHOGS: THE CLASSIC YEARS

Martyn Hanson

ISBN 978-1-78952-343-0

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Publication: was OCT now NOV 2024

ISBN: 9781789523430
Price: £18.99

Binding: Paperback
Format: 210 x 148 mm

Extent: 208 pp
Illustrated: 16 colour pages

Thema: AVLP Popular Music

Comparative title: 9781789520170 Rolling Stones 1963-
1980 - On Track
• A successful UK album act in the early late 1960s
and early 1970s
• Initially a blues band, they later experimented with
progressive rock, psychedelia and electronic
music
• Toured up to 2014, although Tony McPhee died in
2023

Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/ The story of the Groundhogs spans the most exciting years British
rock will ever enjoy. Springing from the same early roots as the
Martyn Hanson was born in 1956 and married Carole in 1978. They Animals, Pretty Things and Rolling Stones, they soon garnered a
have two grown-up children and are grandparents. Martyn ran many reputation as a blues band backing the likes of John Lee Hooker
and many other giants of the genre. From this solid base, they
marathons in the 1980s and 1990s, he also completed the famous graduated to writing some of the most challenging progressive
London to Brighton road race twice. He co-authored ELP - The Show rock music of the 1960s and 1970s, yet the next generation of
That Never Ends in 2000 followed by four solo projects, Hang on to musicians like Captain Sensible and others were fans.
a Dream – The Story of The Nice in 2002. Hoggin’ The Page was
originally published in 2005. He has also written two books on Jon Led by visionary guitarist, singer and songwriter Tony McPhee
Hiseman - Colosseum’s founder: Playing The Band – A Musical (who sadly passed away in 2023, age 79), abetted by the
powerhouse rhythm section of Ken Pustelnik and Pete
Biography and Jon Hiseman’s Journey in the Time Machine – Album Cruickshank. DJ John Peel was a big fan and helped to send their
by Album. He has also written many CD/vinyl liner notes. He lives in Split album into the top five.
Solihull, UK.
Other albums such as Thank Christ For The Bomb, Who Will
Save The World, Hogwash and Solid cemented their reputation
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on a solo tour and building one of the first home studios to record
Orders: Combined Book Services Ltd. with it, shows another side to the complex McPhee that is far less
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This is the story of those classic years.
Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change
without notice. 20/08/2024