Drawn from conversations with the jazz musician and jazz-club proprietor, Ronnie Scott, and with his friends and contemporaries, this book offers a portrait of the man, his music and his business, and marks the 35th anniversary of Ronnie Scott's Club in Soho. It follows Scott's story from his early days as a sharp-dressing, wisecracking young dance-band musician in wartime London, through the coming of rock 'n' roll, hipster fashions and jive talk, to the setting up of his now famous club. The result is both a biography and an offbeat picture of life at the margins in post-war Britain. The book is an updated edition of "Let's Join Hands and Contact the Living", published in 1986.
- ISBN10 1856261700
- ISBN13 9781856261708
- Publish Date 26 January 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 April 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Octopus Publishing Group
- Imprint Kyle Cathie
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English