In 2015, Terry Reid's friend and road manager Simon Sessler wrote about the singer-songwriter's long career in music, telling the full story behind a series of "what-if" moments, celebrating a talent like no other, and revealing exactly what happened when Jimmy Page asked Reid to join his new band.
1965 was quite a year. As America groaned under the weight of the burgeoning crisis in Vietnam and racial tensions at home reached boiling point, rock music was at Year Zero. Rubber Soul and Highway 61 Revisited saw The Beatles and a newly electrified Bob Dylan pretty much invent rock music. The ‘counter-culture’ emerged on both coasts (to the east, The Velvet Underground; on the west, The Doors), while Ken Kesey’s LSD fuelled “Acid Tests” in San Francisco led to the formation of 'house band’ the Grateful Dead and the development of the first proper sound and light systems.
