A new Byrds book has just
been published, written by Italian Byrds fans Paolo “Crazy” Carnevale and Raffaele
Galli.
The book came out at the
end of September 2018 and is published by Arcana, the most important publishing
company for musical books in Italy. In the seventies, they released the Italian
version of Anthony Scaduto’s biography of
Bob Dylan, and they still have the autobiography of Frank Zappa in their
catalogue.
The book includes the story
of the Byrds, of their records, and of the tentative reunions through the
years.
A second part is dedicated to
the relation between the group and Bob Dylan, and between the group and Tom
Petty, and to an essay about the strength of the live Byrds in the seventies.
In the third part, there is
a discography, a commented bibliography and a selection of the best covers of
their songs.
And finally the interviews,
done exclusively for the book (with Roger McGuinn, Gene Parsons, John York,
Jimmi Seiter, Sid Griffin, with fans Pietro Noè and Thomas Aubrunner), and a
story by Bill Sweeney about the penultimate Byrds concert and a never released
memorial written by Skip Battin in the mid-eighties.
The book is written in
Italian and is available from:
https://www.amazon.com/Lavventura-dei-Byrds-californiano-Italian/dp/8862315473
https://www.amazon.it/Lavventura-Byrds-Epopea-suono-californiano/dp/8862315473
https://www.ibs.it/avventura-dei-byrds-epopea-mito-libro-paolo-carnevale-raffaele-galli/e/9788862315470
