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Forever Changes : The Authorized Biography Of Arthur Lee and Love
Arthur Lee and Love - Book - by John Einarson,Johnny Echols
(2024)
Widely hailed as a genius, Arthur Lee was a character every bit as
colorful and unique as his music. In 1966, he was Prince of the Sunset
Strip, busy with his pioneering racially mixed band, Love, and
accelerating the evolution of California folk-rock by infusing it with
jazz and orchestral influences, a process that would climax in a
timeless masterpiece, the Love album Forever Changes. Shaped by a
Memphis childhood and a South Los Angeles youth, Lee always craved fame.
He would achieve his ambition with a mixture of vaulting talent and
colossal chutzpah. Drug use and a reticence to tour were his Achilles
heels, and he succumbed to a dissolute lifestyle just as superstardom
was beckoning. Despite endorsements from the likes of Jimi Hendrix and
Eric Clapton, Lee s subsequent career was erratic and haunted by the
shadow of Forever Changes, reaching a nadir with his imprisonment in
1996 for a firearms offence.
Redemption followed, culminating in
an astonishing postmillennial comeback that found him playing Forever
Changes to adoring, multi-generational fans around the world. This
upswing was only interrupted by his untimely death from leukemia in
2006. Written with the full consent and cooperation of Arthur s widow,
Diane Lee, Forever Changes is a meticulously researched biography that
includes lengthy extracts from Arthur s vivid, comic, and poignant
memoirs, published here for the first time.
Author John Einarson
has also amassed dozens of new interviews with the surviving members of
Love and with many others who fell into the incomparable Lee s
flamboyant orbit. This updated edition adds a new foreword by Love s
co-founder and lead guitarist, Johnny Echols.
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