This is the story of Utopia Avenue's brief, blazing journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land of America, just when the Summer of Love was receding into something much darker - a multi-faceted tale of dreams, drugs, love, sexuality, madness and grief of stardom's wobbly ladder and fame's Faustian pact and of the collision between youthful idealism and jaded reality as the Sixties drew to a close. Utopia Avenue will tell the unexpurgated story of a British band of the same name, who emerged from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and was fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway. Book Description: The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. The band produced only two albums in two years, yet their musical legacy lives on. Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never heard of.Įmerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together created a unique sound, with lyrics that captured their turbulent times. The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of CLOUD ATLAS and THE BONE CLOCKS, 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' ( Independent ).
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