Joe Boyd Discusses His Book, White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s
Fred Mills, Harp, May 2007
AMERICAN-BORN, England-based producer Joe Boyd, who discovered Nick Drake, Fairport Convention and the Incredible String Band, oversaw key recordings by Pink Floyd, R.E.M. and others and along the way operated the esteemed Hannibal Records, didn't set out to pen a memoir.
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