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THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF ARTHUR LEE JOHN EINARSON is a widely- Widely hailed as a genius, Arthur Lee was a JAWBONE PRESS respected rock-music historian and character every bit as colorful and unique as his Changes 2a Union Court author of more than a dozen books, music. In 1966, he was Prince of the Sunset 20-22 Union Road including critically acclaimed Strip, busy with his pioneering racially-mixed For ever London SW4 6JP biographies of Neil Young, Buffalo band Love, and accelerating the evolution of England Springfield, Gene Clark, Randy California folk-rock by infusing it with jazz and orchestral influences, a process www.jawbonepress.com Bachman, and The Flying Burrito that would climax in a timeless masterpiece, the Love album Forever Changes. Brothers. He has written for Mojo, Uncut, Goldmine, Discoveries, Record Collector, and Classic Rock, Shaped by a Memphis childhood and a South Los Angeles youth, Lee always and is a frequent contributor to the craved fame. He would achieve his ambition with a mixture of vaulting talent and Winnipeg Free Press. John wrote the colossal chutzpah. Drug use and a reticence to tour were his Achilles heels, and Juno-nominated Bravo television he succumbed to a dissolute lifestyle just as superstardom was beckoning. documentary Buffy Sainte-Marie: A and the Book of LEE ARTHUR Love Multimedia Life and CBC TV’s The Despite endorsements from the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, Lee’s Life & Times Of Randy Bachman. subsequent career was erratic and haunted by the shadow of Forever Changes, He has contributed to a number of reaching a nadir with his 1996 imprisonment for a firearms offence.
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