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Sonic Bond podcast at http://www.sonicbondbookcast.co.uk/Now retired, Kevan Furbank was Managing Editor Reach Ireland, publishers of the Irish Daily Mirror and Irish Daily Star and a journalist on local and national newspapers for more than 40 years. He has published books on local history and written stories, articles and columns on practically every subject under the sun. This is his fourth book for Sonicbond. His music tastes encompass prog, rock, folk and jazz and in his spare time, he likes to pretend he can play guitar, bass and mandolin. He lives in Holywood, Northern Ireland, and is married with two grown-up daughters.Publication: was OCT now NOV 2024ISBN: 9781789523409Price: %u00a318.99Binding: PaperbackFormat: 210 x 148 mmExtent: 192 pp Illustrated: 16 colour pagesThema: AVLP Popular MusicPrevious edition: 9781789520828 (Jan 2021)%u2022 Notorious rock band, strongly associated with the counterculture, but with legions of fansworldwide %u2022 Still active and touring, fronted by multiinstrumentalist Kavus Torabi %u2022 Famous fans include former snooker world champion Steve Davis who is also in a band with Kavus Every now and then, a band comes along that defies convention, refuses to be pigeon-holed, thumbs its nose at comfy predictability and blows raspberries at commercial wisdom. That band is Gong. From 1970 to the present day, Gong have ploughed a unique musical furrow - part progressive rock, part spacey psychedelia, part proto-punk, ambient trance, drum 'n' bass and absurdist political performance art.In this revised and updated edition, long-time fan Kevan Furbank examines all the Gong albums from Magick Brother in 1970 to 2023's Unending Ascending and chronicles the stories behind each recording. He examines the songwriting, arrangements and mythology that inspired each track - with new insights from, amongst others, the current fantastic Gong line-up, bassist Mike Howlett, violinist Graham Clark and guitarist Josh Pollock.He salutes the many great musicians who have passed through Gong in the last 50-odd years, including guitar hero Steve Hillage, drummer Pierre Moerlen, flute and sax maestro Didier Malherbe and, of course, whimsical visionary and Gong founder Daevid Allen. The author also discusses the off-shoots of the Gong family tree - including Mother Gong, Gongmaison and Pierre Moerlen's Gong.If you have never heard any Gong, this book is the perfect introduction. If you have, you will want to go back and revisit the glorious music this band has made.ISBN 978-1-78952-340-99 7 8 1 7 8 9 5 2 3 4 0 9GONG ON TRACKREVISED AND UPDATEDKevan FurbankSales: Star Book Sales LLP T: 01404 515050E: enquiries@starbooksales.comOrders: Combined Book Services Ltd. Email: orders@combook.co.ukPhone: 01892 837171Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change without notice. 20/08/2024