Also included is a 330 page paperback book entitled
THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY

The book tells the story of Freddy Bannister, a promoter in the UK during the sixties and seventies, (the golden years of pop and rock) when he worked in small ballrooms with literally hundreds of bands, from Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, his first booking, through to The Beatles, Kinks, Small Faces, The Yardbirds, Pete Green's Fleetwood Mac, and John Mayall's Blues Breakers, before working with such heavyweights as Cream, The Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and using Led Zeppelin on one their very first gigs when they were billed as 'formerly known as the Yardbirds' attracting an audience of less than two hundred to the Pavilion Bath, before he and Zeppelin both moved on to bigger and better things. In 1969 and 1970 he organised the two Bath Festivals of Blues and Progressive Music, after which he found Knebworth and ran the first seven festivals there before quitting the music business after the great Led Zeppelin debacle. |