Barry Greenfield
The sixties and seventies - a period that changed popular music forever.A period that made the transistor radio the most popular electroniccommunication device of the age and gave birth to pirate offshore radio stations.But what was it actually like to be in the music business in the youth drivencultural revolution that became to be known as the swinging sixties?Barry Greenfield’s, ’My Journey to Blue Sky’ takes the reader on a ride throughthe halcyon days of music. Beginning in 1968 auditioning for John Lennon at AppleRecords, and culminating in 1973, working in Hollywood, where he recorded hisfirst LP, ’Blue Sky’ with the help of Larry Carlton, Joe Osborn, Jim Gordon, JimmieHaskell and David M. Kershenbaum. Barry Greenfield recorded and performed in Great Britain, Europe, America, andCanada. The Barry Tales he tells are the intimate moments and interesting detailshe lived while he attended ’music school’. His teachers and mentors were Cher,John Lennon, Harry Nilsson, 10cc, Supertramp, Kenny Rogers, Mike Nesmith andmore.Through the use of contemporary journals, diaries and the recollections of thepeople who were there at the time, Barry paints a vivid picture with a no holdsbarred approach. Fast paced, personal, and with heart wide open, BarryGreenfield lays it all out for the reader to relive his journey to Blue Sky.If you are a lover of sixties and seventies music, then for you this is a must read.
