Legendary record producer Joe Boyd was at the centre of so much music making in sixties London that his career offers an insight into what it was like to be there at the time. When the summer of love got going, Joe was running the coolest club in london, the UFO................

The Cd includes many rare and previously unreleased tracks, all carefully remastered, with extensive sleeve notes and previously unpublished photographs.

Included on this compilation is Soft's Machine's ultra rare first single for Polydor, the Ayers penned She's Gone, recorded in 1967.

White Bicycles -- making music in the 1960's -- the Joe Boyd story.
Available from June 1st 2006 -- Fledgling Records

The cd is a companion for Joe Boyd's recently published autobiography 'Whitebicycles making music in the 1960's.

Published in the UK by Serpent's Tail


Track list:
Crossroads: ERIC CLAPTON & the POWERHOUSE
Way Back In The 1960s: The INCREDIBLE STRING BAND
Because It Wouldn't Pay: JOHNNY HANDLE
Spanish Ladies Medley: DAVE SWARBRICK, MARTIN CARTHY & DIZ DISLEY
Arnold Layne: PINK FLOYD
Granny Takes A Trip: The PURPLE GANG
She's Gone: SOFT MACHINE
If I Had A Ribbon Bow: FAIRPORT CONVENTION
Seven Yellow Gypsies: SHIRLEY COLLINS
Chinese White: The INCREDIBLE STRING BAND
Autopsy: FAIRPORT CONVENTION
The Deserter: FAIRPORT CONVENTION
Poor Boy: NICK DRAKE
The Sea: FOTHERINGAY
Flowers Of The Forest: MIKE HERON
Come Wind Come Rain: VASHTI BUNYAN
Primrose Hill: JOHN & BEVERLEY MARTYN
I Don't Mind: The NEW NADIR (previously unreleased)
Church Mouse: DUDU PUKWANA & SPEAR (previously unreleased)
Andromeda: CHRIS McGREGOR'S BROTHERHOOD OF BREATH
Afraid: NICO
Way To Blue: NICK DRAKE
Brazil: GEOFF & MARIA MULDAUR
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