Gong Dreaming 1

by Daevid Allen

Publication date: January 2007

A Deluxe Hardback original

248 x 174mm, 144 pp

UK RRP £16.99       US RRP $24.95

100 B&W photographs & illustrations

ISBN: 0-946719-82-9

Previous edition: 1 899475 00 1

SAF Publishing 

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For forty years Gong, and their enigmatic leader Daevid Allen, have been at the forefront of psychedelic music, with seminal albums such as Camembert Electrique, Angel’s Egg and Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt1: Flying Teapot.

Originally published as a very limited subscription edition in 1994, Gong Dreaming 1 depicts the early years of Daevid Allen’s path to England in the Sixties, through the formation of the legendary Soft Machine and on to the conception of what was to become his life’s work: Gong. Covering his years in playing at the legendary UFO club, the first US tour with the then almost unknown Jimi Hendrix, the Paris student riots and much more, the book offers a rare insight into the hippie dream. Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, William Burroughs, Yoko Ono, Jeff Beck, John McLaughlin, Don Cherry and many others all pass through this hypnotic and beautifully illustrated book.

The original paperback edition sold out before it was published, and copies are now highly sought after collector’s items. This is a new deluxe hardback edition, with gold leaf lettering on the cover, vivid red endpapers and enhanced graphics, published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the formation of Gong.