Arthur
Lee: Alone Again or
de Barney Hoskyns
Présentation
de l'éditeur
Arthur Lee's band, Love, is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential
groups of the late sixties. Led by Lee through a tempestuous history
of dissolution and resurrections, their psychedelic-folk masterpiece,
Forever Changes, regularly appears high in polls of the greatest albums
of all time. Recent times, however, have not been so kind: in 1996,
Lee was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and also received a twelve-year
sentence for threatening his neighbors with a gun. Including interviews
with Lee himself and guitarist Bryan Maclean, among many others, this
fascinating tale reveals the dark side of the Summer of Love -- heroin,
crime, and bitter ego battles -- while also tracking Lee's musical career
through the post-Love years to his recent incarceration in a U.S. jail.