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Serpent’s Tail<\/strong> will publish “White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s” (ISBN: 1-85242-910-0) by one-time Pink Floyd <\/strong>producer Joe Boyd<\/strong>. The book will be in U.S. stores in April.<\/p>\n Boyd, a native of Boston, Mass., ran the London branch of Elektra Records <\/strong>until late 1966. In early ’67, he produced Pink Floyd’s first single, “Arnold Layne,” and its B-side, “Candy and a Currant Bun.”<\/p>\n “Arnold Layne” reached #20 on the U.K. charts, despite a ban by Radio London<\/strong> prompted by the song’s storyline of a man whose fondness for borrowing women’s undergarments lands him behind bars.<\/p>\n Boyd’s resume includes work with Nick Drake<\/strong>, Bob Dylan<\/strong>, Fairport Convention<\/strong>, REM<\/strong> and many others. As the head of Warner Bros. Films<\/strong>, he worked on the soundtracks of “Deliverance,” “A Clockwork Orange” and others.<\/p>\n “White Bicycles” is Boyd’s account of helping shape the music scene of mid-’60s London, including starting the UFO Club, the one-time center of that city’s counterculture, where the Floyd first gained attention for its full-on psychedelic jams.<\/p>\n Fledgling Records<\/strong> will release a companion CD for the book in May. The 23-track album will include “Arnold Layne,” as well as music by Eric Clapton<\/strong>, The Purple Gang<\/strong>, Nick Drake<\/strong>, Nico<\/strong>, The Incredible String Band<\/strong> and others.<\/p>\n Boyd lives in London and writes for The Guardian<\/strong>, The Independent<\/strong> and others.<\/p>\n Serpent’s Tail is a 20-year-old independent book publisher in London owned by Profile Books Ltd.<\/strong><\/p>\n “White Bicycles” is 282 pages and retails for $18 (\u00c2\u00a311.99).<\/p>\n Order your copy of the book online now<\/a>. Place your order for the companion CD<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Serpent’s Tail will publish “White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s” (ISBN: 1-85242-910-0) by one-time Pink Floyd producer Joe Boyd. The book will be in U.S. stores in April. Boyd, a native of Boston, Mass., ran the London branch of Elektra Records until late 1966. In early ’67, he produced Pink Floyd’s first single, “Arnold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}