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Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
  • Before We Forget – Hardback Book
Before We Forget – Hardback Book
£25.00

The First Edition of a Work Honouring the Legacy of Jon Lord

Before We Forget – A Work in Eight Movements is not just a book — it is set to become the reference work on one of British music’s great creative visionaries. Jon Lord reshaped the landscape of modern music by merging the energy of rock with the finesse of classical themes, composition and arranging skill.

This beautiful hardback volume takes readers on an intimate journey through his creative evolution, features his personal insights, captures his many musical triumphs and the inflects his musical story with the reflections of his closest circle.

Why This Work Is Special

  • Features exclusive behind-the-scenes and unseen photography
  • Assimilates archival advertising images of the keyboard and synthesiser names that feature on band and solo recordings and in live performances
  • Has in-depth chapters on each “movement” of his musical life
  • Provides scholarly insight into his sounds, instrumentation (cataloguing every keyboard he used on stage and on record) and features definitive record of his various Hammond organs from 1965 to 2012, including identifying every Deep Purple Hammond from 1968 to 2002, seven different units in total
  • The design and typography artfully blend the traditional and the modern.

This is the first and only book of its kind — a definitive chronicle built around “man and machine” and designed for classic and heavy rock fans, students of popular music and for anyone inspired by the fusion of rock and classical composition, by post-war British cultural history, by the bands Deep Purple and Whitesnake and finally, by the unique musical figure of Jon Lord.