A self-biography crossing 50 years and 5 continents.

I went to know about a British band called CHIMERA just after the death of the Pink Floyd's keyboardist Rick Wright. I knew that he was supposed to be working on a new solo album at the time he passed away, so I started searching for information hoping that something was available. 

During that search I have found few information about this band and the album on which Rick Wright and Nick Mason were featured. I managed to find and borrow a copy. It was a nice album, between 60s psychedelia and folk on which Rick's keyboards can be distinguished only on the start of a track, but what impressed me was the bio in the internal album sleeve.

The story was very interesting. I was curious to understand why a quite good album took 32 years to be printed and released. It was also mentioned that the two girls in the picture above wrote a book about it, but at the time of my first search for the book there was only one known available copy in a public biblioteque in Perth (Australia). 

After some years I retried the search and I've discovered that the book was now available in digital version from Amazon.

It's a self-biography which starts from the early years of Francesca Garnett and Lisa Bankoff, crosses the 60s between the swingin London, Paris, Rome and Los Angeles, a huge number of "very famous names" met by the two girls, not only Pink Floyd, until the current days and a sort of epilogue.

Even speaking of dramatic and sad moments, it's permeated by a good dose of self-irony and sense of humour, even when it goes to some tragic facts.

 This post is only to recommend the book and the album (quite difficult to find, unfortunately), but you can find some samples on Youtube if you are interested.

Here a Youtube link to the full album