Maurice

A gift for Xmas from my wife. So far so good.

Great to see James Baldwin there. In fact, I'm not surprised at all.

A work colleague played me this recently. I completely forgot about it. This is the Moments in 1975 on BBC's Top of the Pops. Nice memories.

Having a wee bit of Maxine. Wonderful.

Loving this. I really am.

My fav album by Curtis. Roots a very close second. Very interesting thread. And I wasn't born in the ghetto, not if you class the East End as a ghetto which it isn't.

Reading this. Only about halfway through. Only received two books for Xmas. James Baldwin in Turkey and Riot on Sunset Strip which is about the mid-late 60s music scene in LA with people like The Byrds, Love and The Doors.

Thanks Troy. Nice to be back.

This little gem arrived and am about half way through.

That's a crying shame. I can only imagine just how difficult it is to get a book published.

And about time.

Not just listening but watching too.

@Troy. Slightly off topic, I'd dearly love to buy books from your shop or indeed any other black owned your side of the pond, but the problem I have is not so much the price of the books but when combined with shipping it workouts overall a little too expensive for ME. I DO buy from indies over here but out of the three I really like only one is black run and that's New Beacon.

Having never read any of Glaude's previous books, what better way to start than on a book of our man Jimmy.

I thought you had wrote more than one book but I could only see JUST the one unless my eyesight is failing me, ha ha.

Hope all goes well for you in Tulsa. The Black Wall St stuff will be very interesting. Nice one.

This arrived a few days back. A good read with essays and poetry.

Having huge problems with posting this in the What are you Listening to now thread for some reason. Probably something to do with the device I'm using so I'll have to make do with it here. I think this is from 1972. I could be a year out mind.

Much obliged. Will have a look shortly.

@Mel Hopkins. Could you kindly post a link for your books? I'm very curious.

Just ordered the book from an indie over here. Can't wait to read it.

Very interesting interview with the author and Cornell West.

Not a massive fan of this band though I do have several of their albums but this is one of the highlights from the IOW 1970 festival for me.

There are at least a couple of biographies on Curtis. The most recent one I've listed on this thread. Highly recommended. I love Curtis and rate his debut album very highly. Keep on keeping on.

Ha ha, yeah. Where was this taken?