Neil Deane - Rocky Passages (2011)

Anybody harbouring the sneaking suspicion that “we are what we hear” will surely feel at home in Neil Deane’s highly-personalized account of how rock music moved in with him at the end of the Beatles’ era and refused to move out again. It made anarchy-bound Liverpool of the 70′s a veritable demi-paradise, helped him survive various challenges in pre- and post-1989 Germany and even made light of new millennium crises and general mid-life paranoia.

Lists pertaining to several facets of his collection of 600 CDs, reflections on the live concert experience and pithy yet revealing philosophising about the pivotal role music plays in our lives all combine to celebrate a 40-year journey many music lovers will recognise from their own “rocky passages”.

Neil Deane was born in Liverpool, England in 1957. He has spent over half his life making a living in Germany and is currently doing so as a lecturer at the University of Duisburg-Essen.