Tim Book Two

Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco

Tim Burgess

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9780571314751
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Rock Music

Tim Book Two is the follow-up to Telling Stories, the hugely successful memoir of Tim Burgess, singer of the Charlatans.
In 2012, Tim published his hugely successful and critically acclaimed memoir, Telling Stories. Tim really enjoyed his new role as an author, and so here it is: Tim Book Two - a tale of Tim's lifelong passion for records, the shops that sell them, and the people who make them.

In some ways, the biggest events in Tim's life happened in the couple of years after he had finished writing his first book rather than in the forty years before. So he had more to say, but instead of another autobiography he chose a different way of telling the story. Tim set himself a quest. He would get in touch with people he admired, and ask them to suggest an album for him to track down on his travels, giving an insight into what makes them tick. It would also offer a chance to see how record shops were faring in the digital age - one in which vinyl was still a much-treasured format.

Tim assembled his cast of characters, from Iggy Pop to Johnny Marr, David Lynch to Cosey Fanni Tutti. Texts, phone calls, emails and handwritten notes went out. Here is the tender, funny and surprising story of what came back.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• FOREWORD
• INTRO
• The Durutti Column, Vini Reilly
• John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
• The Clash, Sandinista!
• Van der Graaf Generator, H to He, Who Am the Only One
• Echo and the Bunnymen, Porcupine
• Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
• Hawkwind, In Search of Space
• Nico, Chelsea Girl
• Big Youth, Dread Locks Dread
• Holy Modal Rounders, The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders
• Siouxsie and the Banshees, Join Hands
• ABBA, ABBA Gold
• Guided by Voices, Bee Thousand
• Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66, Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66
• The Byrds, Younger Than Yesterday
• Fad Gadget, Fireside Favourites
• Royal Trux, Thank You
• T. Rex, The Slider
• Lou Reed, Lou Reed
• Allen Ginsberg, First Blues
• The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
• Roxy Music, Roxy Music
• Clifford T. Ward, Mantle Pieces
• King Curtis, Live at the Fillmore West
• The Shadows, The Very Best of The Shadows
• Hüsker Dü, Metal Circus
• Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA
• Lou Christie Sacco, Paint America Love
• Pearls Before Swine, One Nation Underground Junior Wells, Hoodoo Man Blues White Zombie, Soul-Crusher
• Rage Against the Machine, Rage Against the Machine
• Tomita, Snowflakes Are Dancing
• Pink Floyd, Relics
• Barry Ryan, The Very Best of Barry Ryan
• Loudon Wainwright III, Album III
• Photek, Modus Operandi
• The Allman Brothers Band, The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East
• Paul Simon, Graceland
• Elliott Smith, XO
• John Grant, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure
• The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers
• Pick-a-Dub Featuring King Tubby and the Barrett Bros, arranged by Keith Hudson
• Duane Eddy and the Rebels, Have ‘Twangy’ Guitar Will Travel
• George Jones and Tammy Wynette, Golden Ring
• David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
• Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6, ‘Pathétique’
• Sibylle Baier, Colour Green
• Captain Beefheart, Trout Mask Replica
• Alexander ‘Skip’ Spence, Oar Joe Gibbs and the Professionals, African Dub Chapter 3
• The Groundhogs, Split
• Love, Forever Changes
• OUTRO
• THE RECOMMENDATIONS
• Photographs
• By the Same Author
• Copyright