Does anyone know more about rock stars than Jenny Boyd?

You wonder why her life hasn’t been made into a movie. Jenny Boyd’s mother had so many children she didn’t realise her daughter had quit school and become a model. The world of London clubs and fashion magazines was the start of 60 years’ close observation of rock stars in every context leading, eventually, to the publication of ‘Icons of Rock’, her interviews with 65 musicians. Among the highlights in this pod she talks about...

… what life’s like when your sister marries a Beatle.

… the day a besotted Donovan played her the song he’d written about her (‘Jennifer Juniper’).

… how the 16 year-old Cheynes’ drummer Mick Fleetwood took one look at her and declared “that’s the girl I’m going to marry”.

… the Crazy Elephant and the Scotch of St James.

… watching the Beatles write songs in Rishikesh.

… her transition from being “a dollybird” to "a searcher".

… modelling in California and the Monterey Pop Festival.

… the characteristics songwriters have in common and the meaning of “the peak experience”.

… being the only mum in the Fleetwood Mac orbit, life at their Kiln House commune and why Mick was “the pot of glue” that held the band together.

… “talent is inherited but stamina often isn’t”.

… and memories of Peter Green, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, Graham Nash and “Magic” Alex.

Order ‘Icons of Rock’ here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Icons-Rock-Fleetwood-Mitchell-Harrison/dp/1789466717/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1700664733&refinements=p_27%3AJenny+Boyd&s=books&sr=1-1

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