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You wonder why her life hasn\\u2019t been made into a movie. Jenny Boyd\\u2019s mother had so many children she didn\\u2019t realise her daughter had quit school and become a model. The world of London clubs and fashion magazines was the start of 60 years\\u2019 close observation of rock stars in every context leading, eventually, to the publication of \\u2018Icons of Rock\\u2019, her interviews with 65 musicians. Among the highlights in this pod she talks about...

\\u2026 what life\\u2019s like when your sister marries a Beatle.

\\u2026 the day a besotted Donovan played her the song he\\u2019d written about her (\\u2018Jennifer Juniper\\u2019).

\\u2026 how the 16 year-old Cheynes\\u2019 drummer Mick Fleetwood took one look at her and declared \\u201cthat\\u2019s the girl I\\u2019m going to marry\\u201d.

\\u2026 the Crazy Elephant and the Scotch of St James.

\\u2026 watching the Beatles write songs in Rishikesh.

\\u2026 her transition from being \\u201ca dollybird\\u201d to "a searcher".

\\u2026 modelling in California and the Monterey Pop Festival.

\\u2026 the characteristics songwriters have in common and the meaning of \\u201cthe peak experience\\u201d.

\\u2026 being the only mum in the Fleetwood Mac orbit, life at their Kiln House commune and why Mick was \\u201cthe pot of glue\\u201d that held the band together.

\\u2026 \\u201ctalent is inherited but stamina often isn\\u2019t\\u201d.

\\u2026 and memories of Peter Green, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, Graham Nash and \\u201cMagic\\u201d Alex.

Order \\u2018Icons of Rock\\u2019 here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Icons-Rock-Fleetwood-Mitchell-Harrison/dp/1789466717/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1700664733&refinements=p_27%3AJenny+Boyd&s=books&sr=1-1

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