A rock book I have never ever heard of before, by a writer I never heard of before - until this moment.
Published 1976.
After this book, David Downing switched to fiction, writing s.f., alternative history, spy fiction, etc
I wonder if Future Rock's any cop? Hard to say from this review by CSM.
CSM is one of the NME writers (see also Mick Farren) who often wrote about s.f. writers in the paper (e.g. Ballard) and could have made a fair stab at a tome about the science fiction and rock nexus.
Dunning's book reminded me a bit of this cat Lou Stathis who wrote about music for Heavy Metal - not about heavy metal but about a continuum of sci-fi rock that includes Eno, Fripp, Bowie, Roxy, but also Chrome, Devo, Ubu, Ultravox, The Normal, Gary Numan etc. He called it "rok"
How "Future Rock" looked in the late Sixties - from Lillian Roxon's encyclopedia .
