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From Spector to Hendrix, from Little Richard to Marc Bolan, from the Beatles to Fleetwood Mac, Norman Jopling interviewed and wrote about hundreds of musical movers & shakers from 1961-1972 in music publications including Record Mirror, NME, Cream, Let It Rock and Billboard. He pioneered in print the UK rhythm & blues boom, was the first music writer to rave about the Rolling Stones, and his regular columns Fallen Idols and The Great Unknowns were pasted into scrapbooks throughout Britain. In Shake It Up Baby! he tells what it was like to be a teenage pop reporter - profiling not just the big-names but the forgotten as well as the famous. He also reveals the arcane details: the week-in week-out lists of who was interviewed and featured, the stories behind the stories, the passions of the readers, and the day-by-day nuts and bolts of producing a weekly pop newspaper.

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Hip new journalistic memoir from Pop's golden age...voluminous, anecdote-rich account of his extraordinary decade at the forefront of pop journalism (Mojo****) Fascinating, funny and gloriously evocative account...easily the best music book to hit the shelves in an age...as passionate as it is erudite, this is required reading for any wannabe writer (Record Collector *****) Detailed and illuminating memoir of his decade at the pop-press coal face... (The Oldie) Week by week, month by month, year by year chronicle of Jopling's charmed lifestyle of interviewing anyone and everyone from the Beatles and the Stones to Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix and Captain Beefheart (Kaleidoscope) Easily the most detailed account of the realities of working on a 60s British pop weekly (Flashback) I used to say that the best books on the 60's were written before 1970. Norman Jopling's SHAKE IT UP BABY! breaks that thought. He writes about the 60's pop boom as if he were still there - and he takes us back there. A triumph of time-travel! (Andrew Oldham) A great writer and storyteller (Now Dig This)

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