The sixties andseventies – a period that changed popular music forever. A period that madethe transistor radio the most popular electronic communication device of theage and gave birth to pirate offshore radio stations. But what was itactually like to be in the music business in the youth driven culturalrevolution that became to be known as the swinging sixties?Barry Greenfield’s,‘My Journey to Blue Sky’ takes the reader on a ride through the halcyondays of music. Beginning in 1968 auditioning for John Lennon at Apple Records,and culminating in 1973, working in Hollywood, where he recorded his first LP,‘Blue Sky’ with the help of Larry Carlton, Joe Osborn, Jim Gordon, JimmieHaskell and David M. Kershenbaum Barry Greenfieldrecorded and performed in Great Britain, Europe, America, and Canada. The BarryTales he tells are the intimate moments and interesting details he lived whilehe attended ‘music school’. His teachers and mentors were Cher, John Lennon,Harry Nilsson, 10cc, Supertramp, Kenny Rogers, Mike Nesmith and more. Through the use ofcontemporary journals, diaries and the recollections of the people who werethere at the time, Barry paints a vivid picture with a no holds barredapproach. Fast paced, personal, and with heart wide open, Barry Greenfield laysit all out for the reader to relive his journey to Blue Sky. If you are a loverof sixties and seventies music, then for you this is a must read.
