{"id":25037,"date":"2024-07-25T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=25037"},"modified":"2024-07-24T22:14:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T22:14:03","slug":"make-my-day-the-rock-n-roll-story-of-fast-eddie-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=25037","title":{"rendered":"MAKE MY DAY: THE ROCK \u2018N\u2019 ROLL STORY OF FAST EDDIE CLARKE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MAKE MY DAY: THE ROCK \u2018N\u2019 ROLL STORY OF FAST EDDIE CLARKE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOUR-CD CAREER RETROSPECTIVE AND 320 PAGE BOOK OF THE ICONIC MOTORHEAD GUITARIST BY KRIS NEEDS TO BE RELEASED SEPTEMBER 6th<\/sup> VIA BMG<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRE-ORDER <\/strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> AND LISTEN TO THE SOLO TRACK \u2018OVER AND OUT\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coming in a robust box, Make My Day: The Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Story Of Fast Eddie Clarke<\/em> celebrates the late Motorhead-Fastway guitarist with a four-CD career retrospective and 320-page book written by veteran rock journalist Kris Needs with Clarke\u2019s widow Mariko Fujiwara.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The book that named the set, Make My Day: The Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Story Of Fast Eddie Clarke<\/em> charts the guitarist\u2019s life and career including his epiphany seeing the Yardbirds at Eel Pie Island, playing with assorted bands, recording two albums with former Jimi Hendrix associate Curtis Knight, riding with Motorhead\u2019s most revered lineup between 1976 and 1982, forming Fastway and releasing two solo albums. Mariko and Eddie\u2019s closest friends provide detailed insights into Eddie\u2019s life, including growing up in Twickenham, topping charts with Motorhead, overcoming personal problems, finding happiness with Mariko and becoming the smitten co-owner of Cookie the Maltese-Shihtzu cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As editor of the UK\u2019s first serious music monthly Zigzag and one of Motorhead\u2019s earliest press champions, Kris Needs spent five years close to the band during its most successful period and beyond. To this end, Needs also interviewed close friends, bandmates, associated bands including Girlschool and Saxon plus collaborators from different stages of Eddie\u2019s roller coaster life and career, emerging with a definitive account that ends up a love story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CD boxset covers Fast Eddie\u2019s recording career of over 40 years including tracks requested by Mariko, starting with The Early Years<\/em>, which includes Zeus and his subsequent band Continuous Performance, along with three tracks from the legendary Muggers, who Eddie and Philthy \u2018Animal\u2019 Taylor played with in 1978 along with \u2018Speedy\u2019 Keen and Heartbreakers bassist Billy Rath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CD2\u2019s Motorhead<\/em> highlights Eddie\u2019s most outstanding performances with the \u2018classic lineup\u2019 of Lemmy, Philthy \u2018Animal\u2019 Taylor, including \u2018Ace Of Spades\u2019 and other much-loved rampages, three previously unreleased Bomber<\/em> album demos and his vocal performances on the Headgirl project with Girlschool and \u2018Stone Dead Forever\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CD3\u2019s Fastway straddles different incarnations of the band Fast Eddie formed with UFO bassist Pete Way after departing from Motorhead in 1982, including demos, remixes and tracks from their eight albums. Along with curios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CD4, The Solo Years mainly draws from Fast Eddie\u2019s two solo albums, It Ain\u2019t Over \u2018Till It\u2019s Over and his final work with underrated peak Make My Day: Back To The Blues, created with Shakatak\u2019s Bill Sharpe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre-order the set HERE<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MAKE MY DAY: THE ROCK \u2018N\u2019 ROLL STORY OF FAST EDDIE CLARKE FOUR-CD CAREER RETROSPECTIVE AND 320 PAGE BOOK OF THE ICONIC MOTORHEAD GUITARIST BY KRIS NEEDS TO BE RELEASED SEPTEMBER 6th VIA BMG PRE-ORDER HERE AND LISTEN TO THE SOLO TRACK \u2018OVER AND OUT\u2019 Coming in a robust box, Make My Day: The Rock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3153,1343],"class_list":["post-25037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bmg","tag-motorhead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25053,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25037\/revisions\/25053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}