SEEKER'S GUIDE TO THE RHYTHM OF YESTERYEAR

630pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, No Place, 2012

ISBN: 9780620320184

A history of popular music from 1950-1979.

"Gallimaufry is a word which means a mixed-up hodgepodge, an unusual word for a usual book ... a sprawling celebration of music from the 50s, 60s and 70s ... It's chaotic, unpredictable and strangely brilliant, and impossible not to like, such is the torrent of facts, opinions and sheer, exuberant love of music." Record Collector

"This is not just another banal artists' discography or critics' compendium of music trivia yawn ... it's precisely Noone's stream of consciousness that keeps you reading. More than a mere reference book, these madcap trips through chapters on "Folk Legends", "Birth of the Blues", "Rockabilly", "Surf Beat", "British Invasion", "Psychedelia" and "Prog Rock" chronicle one listeners obsessive compulsive love for the Holy Grail of rock 'n roll ... it's the catalogue of subterranean basement blues riffs about forgotten footnotes such as Blue Cheer, Capability Brown, The Dog That Bit People and Freedom's Children that make this kaleidoscope anthology essential reading." Rolling Stone

Shiloh Noone is a presenter on Cape Talk Radio. He is the author of Swimming with Salamanders, a collection of short stories, and the novels Witches of Sark and A Bicycle, a Chess Set, an African River. He lives in Hermanus.