{"title":"Robyn Hitchcock","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobyn Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist, born on March 3, 1953 in Paddington, London. With a career spanning over four decades, he has established himself as a prominent figure in the music industry. Known for his unique blend of folk rock and psychedelic pop, Hitchcock's distinctive voice and poetic lyrics have captivated audiences worldwide. His extensive discography showcases his versatility as an artist, with each album offering a new sonic exploration. Whether performing solo or with his band, Robyn Hitchcock continues to enchant listeners with his captivating melodies and thought-provoking storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1967-vacations-in-the-past-3","title":"1967: Vacations in the Past","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobyn Hitchcock is a rock’n’roll surrealist. Born in London on March 3rd, 1953 he describes his songs as “pictures you can listen to”. As much a child of Dali, De Chirico, and JG Ballard as of his 1960s musical heroes, he is a master of the absurd, reveling in the beauty of the unexpected. His first publicly visible band The Soft Boys (1976 - 81) has remained an influential art-rock touchstone for generations of musicians. “I just want to be an obscure cult fringe,” he told the NME in 1978; the NME didn’t believe him, but he’s been true to his ambition. Without ever breaking the surface of pop culture Hitchcock has floated at a tangent to the mainstream for nearly 5 decades. His songs have been performed by REM, The Replacements, Neko Case, Gillian Welch \u0026amp; David Rawlings, Lou Barlow, Grant Lee Phillips, Sparklehorse, and Suzanne Vega with the Grateful Dead among others. A confirmed outsider, he nonetheless has devoted listeners around the world who attend his concerts, and also tune into the online streaming shows Robyn seasonally does with his wife, the singer Emma Swift. In 1996 he was the subject of Jonathan Demme’s in-concert film, ‘Storefront Hitchcock’. Robyn Hitchcock came of age in the 1960s when he attended Winchester College, an eccentric hothouse boarding school in the south of England. This is the subject of “1967”, which is both a memoir and an album, due for release in June this year. The memoir is a book “1967: How I Got There And Why I Never Left”, describing how the music of Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and others drastically transformed the direction of his life when he left home for this strange new world. The companion record album “1967: Vacations In The Past” is a selection of the (mostly) hit songs of that year, re-recorded acoustically by Robyn with the help of some friends in Cambridge, San Francisco, and Sydney. He is currently preparing new material to release in 2025. “I like to keep busy”, he says: “We have all eternity to not exist”.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tiny Ghost Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50380215484747,"sku":"2218035","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50380215091531,"sku":"2218031","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_b99ca30d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726210991"},{"product_id":"goodnight-oslo","title":"Goodnight Oslo","description":"\u003cp\u003ethe quirky and very english singer-songwriter has recorded his first album in three years with friends and longtime cohorts the venus three - peter buck (guitar) and r.e.m. mainstays scott mccaughey (bass, vocals) and bill rieflin (drums). boasting ten new songs, 'goodnight oslo' features 'up to our nex' a track written for jonathan demme's acclaimed film 'rachel getting married'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50439884734795,"sku":"310936","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/13e09b7a-a14f-4842-afb6-3f782fd57666_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726957453"},{"product_id":"1967-how-i-got-there-and-why-i-never-left-2","title":"1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Memoirists rarely begin their work with a stroke of genuine inspiration, and Robyn Hitchcock's ingenious idea to limit his account of his life to the titular year gives this sharp, funny,­ finely written book an unusually keen, wistful intensity without sacri­ficing its sense of the breath-taking sweep of time. I absolutely adored every line of 1967 and every moment I spent reading it' Michael Chabon \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'1967 . . . in which our hero looks down from the future at his squeaky realm of boyhood, a world of dayglo sunsets, and would-be denizens of music and the mind. Cometh the year, cometh the groover' Johnny Marr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Page Turner could be the name of a lead singer in a sixties psychedelic band, but it's not - it's a description of Robyn Hitchcock's tender and hilarious memoir' Joe Boyd \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bright, obsessive compulsive boy is shipped off to a hothouse academic boarding school just before he reaches his thirteenth birthday; just as Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited starts to bite, and the Beatles' Revolver explodes. In January 1966, Robyn Hitchcock is still a boy pining for his green Dalek sponge and his family's comforting au pair, Teresa. By December 1967, he's mutated into a 6 ft 2-inch rabid Bob Dylan fan, whose two ambitions in life are to get really stoned and move to Nashville.In between, as the hippie revolution blossoms in the world outside, Hitchcock adjusts to the hierarchical, homoerotic world of Winchester (think Gormenghast via Evelyn Waugh), threading a path through teachers with arrested development, some oafish peers and a sullen old maid - a very English freak show. On the way he befriends a cadre of bat-winged teenage prodigies and meets their local guru, the young Brian Eno. And his home life isn't any more normal . . .At the end of 1967, all the ingredients are in place that will make Robyn Hitchcock a songwriter for life. 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This is the first time Robyn has made a full band album in the studio since 2008 and the record features a lot of key players, including Gillian Welch, Emma Swift, Pat Sansone (Wilco, The Autumn Defense), and Grant-Lee Phillips. The psych rock influence is a callback to his days with The Soft Boys and his early solo albums.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yep Roc","offers":[{"title":"Green | LP","offer_id":50479659024715,"sku":"1165165","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8a7ff0b6-88d0-4f9c-8df7-6eb2f6ad4790_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727510952"},{"product_id":"follow-your-money-motion-pictures","title":"Follow Your Money \/ Motion Pictures","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecord Store Day 2015 Release. Recorded in Melbourne, Australia, this release features the collaboration between Robyn Hitchcock and Emma Swift. The two met at a Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell concert in 2013 and have been making music as a duo ever since, drawn together musically by a penchant for songs of desire and desolation. This LP features a new track, 'Follow Your Money,' as well as a cover of Neil Young's 'Motion Pictures.' Limited Edition Record Store Day Exclusive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yep Roc","offers":[{"title":"7\"","offer_id":50984960098635,"sku":"387912","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e229ce78-b856-4d50-b0f6-e42bbeb077ac_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1734428090"},{"product_id":"stranded-in-the-future-1","title":"Stranded in the Future","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHitchcock's second memoir explores the formation of his seminal 1970s band the Soft Boys, and the obsessions that fuelled his early creative output\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'British singer-songwriter Hitchcock wistfully reflects on boarding school and the music that shaped him in this captivating chronicle of the year he credits with sculpting his artistic sensibility . . . Readers need not be fans of Hitchcock's music to find this enchanting.' ―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e1967\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Memoirists rarely begin their work with a stroke of genuine inspiration, and Robyn Hitchcock's ingenious idea to limit his account of his life to the titular year gives this sharp, funny, finely written book an unusually keen, wistful intensity without sacrificing its sense of the breathtaking sweep of time. 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The book explores the way that Hitchcock, in his own head, linked these two figures to each other, although they never actually met.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the way, the story mines the incremental hangover of the 1970s as Hitchcock begins to play live, teaches himself to write songs, and eventually forms the Soft Boys. There's a side order of trolleybuses too! Hitchcock's beautiful prose will resonate far beyond the fans of his music, and build on the literary following he established with his first book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constable","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57600184320331,"sku":"R1788-1490","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/81bQtAA32SL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781682136"},{"product_id":"the-confuser","title":"The Confuser","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his sixth decade as a singer, songwriter, and musician, Robyn Hitchcock manages to still illuminate and mystify, bemuse and philosophize, unlike any other before or since. 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