JOHNNY ROGAN
Johnny Rogan is an author of Irish descent best known for his books about music and popular culture. He has written influential biographies of the Byrds, Neil Young, the Smiths, Van Morrison, and Ray Davies. His writing is characterised by “an almost neurotic attention to detail”, epic length (the first volume of Requiem for the Timeless is over 1,200 pages long), and a curiously ambivalent, sometimes positive/sometimes hostile response from the subjects of his biographies. (More from Wikipedia)
Don Arden insisted that the Klubs change their name to Revolution – perhaps he got the idea from another single by Tomorrow called “Revolution” that came out the year before the song of that name, “Revolution” by the Beatles. When the band refused to bow to this demand and arrogantly stood their ground, Arden heaped abuse on the young bandmembers. Don Arden, who was once called “the Al Capone of pop” by critic Johnny Rogan, was not used to taking any lip from the bands that he signed; Arden tore up their recording contract in front of the Klubs and vowed that their Decca recordings would never see the light of day.
(July 2013)
