Mark Wilkerson

"We were the best worst band. We died but we died in style." Speedy Keen Thunderclap Newman stunned the music world in the summer of 1969 with the success of their wonderfully odd debut single 'Something In The Air', which ousted none other than the Beatles from the top of the charts. They followed up with an LP described by...

HARDCOVER, LIMITED EDITION INCLUDING BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY PETE TOWNSHEND AND ORIGINAL 11" x 17" POSTER BY JOSH TOWNSHEND (PETE'S NEPHEW AND BANDMEMBER IN ONE OF THE LAST INCARNATIONS OF THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN) "We were the best worst band. We died but we died in style." — Speedy Keen Thunderclap Newman stunned the music world in the summer of 1969 with the...

The scene that bulldozed the path from prog and glam to punk and new wave, pub rock was a short-lived phenomenon in the U.K., emerging amidst the bloated landscape of prog rock and an increasingly oppressive economic outlook. In the U.K. in the early ‘70s, in response to the glitz of glam and the excess of prog, there emerged a...