On drugs and music

And now, for something a little bit different as we talk to Harry Shapiro, author and journalist who has been working in the UK drugs charity sector and as a music biographer. His books include, Recreational Drugs: A Directory, Waiting for the Man: the Story of Drugs and Popular Music and Shooting Stars: Drugs, Hollywood and the Movies. His history of the UK drug scene Fierce Chemistry was published in 2021 and he is the author of biographies on Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Alexis Korner, Graham Bond and Gary Moore. His latest work in progress is a biography of the Louisiana blues guitarist John Campbell

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