Holger Petersen's "Talking Music"

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Holger Petersen's interviews are arranged in the book Talking Music. This is an excerpt from a review of the book:

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For Bill Wyman, longtime bassist for the Stones, he quit the biggest band in the world because he was "fed up with all that heavy rock stuff and the big stadium s-" and wanted to get back to the blues. He's also made sick by the sight of his former bandmates in tuxes in Vegas. Eric Burdon of the Animals says of Jimi Hendri "It was a classic example of a true bluesman who was railroaded into being a pop personality and that's what killed him." And Mick Fleetwood, who would eventually be in one of the biggest bands of all time, remembers when Fleetwood Mac was a blues band and he was in "heaven" to be in Chicago with some of the old blues guys like Otis Spann, Willie Dixon and Honeyboy Edwards. I guess all the money and cocaine in the new Mac wasn't as good as heaven.