Rock Literature Classic Republished

The Big Beat Scene by Royston Ellis written in 1960 and out of print since 1961 has just been re-published by Music Mentor Books
By: Royston Ellis
 
June 14, 2010 - PRLog -- THE BIG BEAT SCENE – a classic of rock literature republished after 50 years.

Just published by Music Mentor Books of England is THE BIG BEAT SCENE by ROYSTON ELLIS

Described as “a forgotten classic of rock literature” Royston Ellis wrote THE BIG BEAT SCENE in 1960 but it has been out of print since 1961.

This new edition has been republished with new material including a foreword and afterword recalling the author’s influence on The Beatles and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin.

Royston Ellis is unique in his involvement with the music that heralded the dawn of the Swinging Sixties.

As a performer of his own rock ‘n’ roll poetry (“Rocketry”) he appeared with Cliff Richard’s group The Shadows before discovering and teaming up with Jimmy Page for tv and stage shows, and being backed by the then Beetles (whose name he suggested should be Beatles) in Liverpool in June 1960.

His book The Big Beat Scene – a survey of popular music at the time – was written 50 years ago and first published as a paperback in 1961. In that year Ellis, by then acclaimed as both the King of the Beatniks and as a spokesman for Britain’s teenage generation, was 20. He left England to roam the world.

Ellis performed his poetry with Yevtushenko in Moscow and was trapped in East Berlin when the wall was built.

From 1963-1966 he lived in Las Palmas writing novels and editing the island’s English language newspaper, The Canary Islands Sun.

In 1966 he moved to Dominica where he wrote the bestselling series of Bondmaster historical novels under the pseudonym of Richard Tresillian. After the log cabin he built was blown away in Hurricane David in 1979, he settled in Sri Lanka.

There he lives in a century-old cottage by the Indian Ocean writing guidebooks, including the Indian travellers’ essential companion, India By Rail.

His new Insight guidebook Sri Lanka: Step By Step is being published this year, and he is the author of the long-established Bradt guide books to Mauritius, Maldives, and Sri Lanka.

The Big Beat Scene is being published by Music Mentor Books in a new edition on 1 June 2010, with new photographs and a new foreword and afterword, including an account of how Royston Ellis helped name the Beatles 50 years ago.

Order from:

http://musicmentor0.tripod.com/book_big_beat_scene.html

Title:             THE BIG BEAT SCENE
ISBN-13:         978-0-9562679-1-7
Size:              234 x 156 mm (approx 9.25 x 6")
Extent:           184 pages
Illustrations:    40 B&W
Price:             £11.99

Royston Ellis is available for interview. Please email him in Sri Lanka on royston@roystonellis.com with any questions or to arrange an interview by skype or by telephone.

                  www.roystonellis.com
                  June 14 2010

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About Royston Ellis.
Royston Ellis, former pop poetry performer in England, is an author and travel writer living in Sri Lanka since 1980 where he specialises in books and magazine articles on Sri Lanka and the Maldives. www.roystonellis.com
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