Bathed In Lightning: John McLaughlin, the 60s and the emerald beyond

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Bathed in Lightning Book Series Softcover Written by Colin Harper
On February 16 1969, John McLaughlin flew into New York, from London, in a snowstorm
The following day, Miles Davis, his hero, invited him to play on a record

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On February 16 1969, John McLaughlin flew into New York, from London, in a snowstorm. Day after today, Miles Davis, his hero, invited him to play on a record. Two years later, on the path of Bengali mystic Sri Chinmoy, John launched The Mahavishnu Orchestra–an evocation in music of spiritual aspiration and peculiar power, volume and complexity. Curiously, it used to be also a huge success. John McLaughlin brought rock music to its pinnacle, the end point in an evolution from Mississippi blues through Coltrane, Hendrix and The Beatles. And then, in November 1975, he hung up his electric guitar and walked away from the stadiums of the rock world for an ongoing, restless career in music of other forms. To the various world, John McLaughlin gave the look of an overnight success, with a backstory going back only so far as that February in 1969. Yet he had been a professional musician since 1958–a guitar for hire at the centre of ‘Swinging London’, a bandmate of future members of Cream, Pentangle and Led Zeppelin, but at all times just under the radar. Drawing on dozens of exclusive interviews and lots of months of meticulous research, creator and music historian Colin Harper brings that unrepeatable era vividly to life. This landmark new work retrieves for the first time the unbelievable career of John McLaughlin before he conquered the world–and then chronicles how he did so.


Bathed in Lightning Book Series Softcover Written by Colin Harper
On February 16 1969, John McLaughlin flew into New York, from London, in a snowstorm
Day after today, Miles Davis, his hero, invited him to play on a record
Two years later, on the path of Bengali mystic Sri Chinmoy, John launched The Mahavishnu Orchestra – an evocation in music of spiritual aspiration and peculiar power, volume and complexity, far beyond anything else in jazz or rock
Curiously, it used to be also a huge success

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