Dimensions
156 x 234 x 22mm
Goin' Down De Mont catalogues more than 60 years of musical history as witnessed at the most iconic music venue in the East Midlands, Leicester's De Montfort Hall. Told through the eyewitness accounts of over 200 fans and celebrity musicians, this book documents the hundreds of concerts that De Mont has hosted, from teenage girls in the Sixties screaming at The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, through Seventies visits by rock giants David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and on to modern day purveyors of rock ? Simple Minds, OMD and Kasabian. Packed with memories and previously unseen images, Goin' Down De Mont brings bring back musical memories going back all the way to the birth of rock 'n' roll. It includes contributions from Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople), Steve Hackett (Genesis), Kathy Bushnell (Emily Muff), Baz Warne (The Stranglers) and Leicester's very own Rich Barton (Diesel Park West), Jon Lord (Deep Purple, Whitesnake), Dave Bartram (Showaddywaddy), Roger Chapman (Family) and Tom Meighan (Kasabian). AUTHOR: Bruce Pegg is the author of Goin' Down De Mont; A People's History of Rock & Pop Concerts at Leicester's De Montfort Hall (Spenwood, 2022) & Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry (Routledge, 2002). From Leicester, UK he now lives in central New York state. 130 colour and b/w images
