We follow their careers, from the disastrous first gig, to a record deal, Top of the Pops, US tour and the like, while also following their personal lives, which are inevitably a bit messy. Fortunately, he meets Levon Frankland, one of those Svengali-like music impresarios (think: Andrew Loog Oldham, Peter Grant or Mickie Most).Ī new group is formed with Dean, along with two members of a band which is now defunct thanks to the the manoeuvring of Levon Frankland (Jasper de Zoet, his real name, lead guitarist, and Griff Griffin, drummer), and Elf Holloway, lead singer and keyboardist, formerly in a duo (both musical and romantic), with an Australian, Bruce Fletcher, who has unceremoniously dumped her, both musically and romantically. He has been kicked out of his group, fired from his job, been scammed out of £50 (a lot of money in January 1967 when this book opens) and thrown out of his flat, as he cannot pay his rent. We meet Dean Moss when things are not going well for him. Given that Mitchell uses many real characters in this book, I found it that much more interesting. Moreover, I used to be and still am to a certain degree a keen devotee of this era of music and had an encyclopedic knowledge of many of the performers. While I am, of course, reviewing this novel because it is by David Mitchell, I am also reviewing it because my late brother-in-law was, like Dean Moss, one of the the protagonists of this novel, a bassist in a rock group and had some success (but not very much) in his rock career before his premature death. Home » England » David Mitchell » Utopia Avenue David Mitchell: Utopia Avenue
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