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Where Are the Elephants?
by Leon Rosselson, PM Press, £15.99
LIKE many of his more complex songs, Leon Rosselson’s eminently readable memoir consists of discrete — and sometimes seemingly disparate — sections, yet coheres as a fascinating, deeply thoughtful whole.
It deserves to be read by more than those familiar with Rosselson’s unprecedented oeuvre, which stretches from the early 1960s to the first couple of decades of the 21st century, and it would be extremely useful if PM Press were to issue a disc or two featuring the songs peppered throughout the book.
The first section entertainingly recounts his trajectory from war child in the 1940s to locked-down octogenarian rather more recently.
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