1967 How I Got There and Why I Never Left

As someone who has made a living with his voice, singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock is the best person to narrate this brief memoir of the year he turned 14. That was the year, 1967, when the world first heard the Beatles' SGT. PEPPER album. With his London accent sounding both educated and edgy, Hitchcock gives an enthusiastic performance of this memoir, complete with raucous imitations of teachers and schoolmates at the boys' boarding school he attended that year. As he reflects on his musical influences at that time, he also does a passable Bob Dylan. While occasionally his voices are overly exaggerated and his delivery sounds rambling despite its brevity, in the best passages Hitchcock sounds like a trained actor. D.B. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2024]