The Story of John Nightly by Tot Taylor

The Story of John Nightly by Tot Taylor

The Story of John Nightly>is a novel about the nature of creativity - at the level of genius. It mixes real and imagined lives in the tale of a young singer-songwriter.

John Nightly (b.1948) finds his dimension in pop music, the art form of his time, and his solo album becomes the third best-selling record of 1970. But success turns out to have side effects.

After a dazzling career, John renounces his gift, denying music and his very being, until he is rediscovered thirty years later by a teenage savior dude who persuades him to restore his quasi-proto-multi-media eco-mass, the>Mink Bungalow Requiem.

Can John Nightly be brought back to life again?

• 'Superb.. an original character and an original book' David Quantick, Record Collector
  

Tot Taylor is a writer, composer, art curator and music producer. He has worked in music, film, theatre and the visual arts since being signed by Island Records while still at school. For the past thirteen years, he has been co-curator of the Riflemaker gallery in Beak Street, Soho, which he co-founded with Virginia Damtsa. Their artists have been featured at Tate Modern, MoMA, the Pompidou Center and Frieze Masters, among others. The Story of John Nightly is his first novel.