The Island Book of Records Volume I: 1959-68

Contents

• Preface – Genesis & Revelations
• Escaping Torquemada & Harrow on the Hill – tracing Island founder Chris Blackwell’s roots
• Boogie in my Bones via Half Moon Bay – Chris Blackwell’s first productions and the first Jamaica–only LPs
• Underneath the Mango Tree – Chris Blackwell and Jamaican music’s role in the first James Bond movie, Dr. No
• London Calling, from Rutland Gate Mews to Cambridge Road – the early growth of the label
• Did you ever wonder why all those early 45s were faded at 2’50”? Graeme Goodall on engineering early recordings
• Too Much, Too Young – the Spencer Davis Group’s split and the formation of Traffic
• Miles From Nowhere – Traffic’s famed Berkshire Cottage
• How’s yer arse since the pig bit ya? – Albert Heaton, Island’s first super–roadie by Spooky Tooth’s drummer
• Going Up, Second Floor – 155 Oxford Street and the creative hub which ushers in the pink (label) revolution
• There are only two Phil Spectors and I’m one of them – Guy Stevens, from the Scene Club to the Sue label and beyond
• North London to the world – the move to the scout hut on Neasden Lane
• Season of the Witch – the formation of Joe Boyd’s production company
• Withering Tree – Traffic grinds to a halt
• Prefix and suffix – the most comprehensive listing of all Island and sub–label 45s and EPs from this era.
• El Pea – every Island album issued between 1959/1968 as well as those known and/or scheduled but not released including subsidiary labels (Surprise, Big Shot, Studio One etc)