I Saw Her Standing There

By John Paul Kirkham

Recently revised and expanded in 2022 featuring a prologue and epilogue by the legendary bands Hawkwind and Lindisfarne. It was 1979 and forgetting the politics, protests and strikes the music was ace. The glam rocker and electric warrior Marc Bolan had kick started the decade riding a white swan and ten years later AC/DC were taking off on the highway to global domination with their powerfully loud and exciting live performances ... the future of progressive rock was in safe hands and whatever the music genre the 1970s had it in overdrive. This was the time to be, no social media, mobile phones or texting sounds good hey!
Everybody has a year, a time or a place that means something. For me it was that summer of 1979, Led Zeppelin’s great epic last ever gig at Knebworth, I was there and ....... It was a time when the world was young and I fell in love .... in love with a girl from a distant shore.
This was the late 1970s when it was still cool to be children of the revolution and in a quest to fill our lives with freedom and peace there had to be a whole lotta love, other stuff and rock and roll and plenty of it there was as I tell the true tale of when two souls ..... two rebel hearts collided.This new edition has an additional 40 pages and features a selection of photographs of HRH Diana Princess of Wales that are published here for the very first time from the authors personal archive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Paul Kirkham
• Release date: May 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005855284

John Paul Kirkham

John Paul Kirkham is a poet, photographer and writer living in the City of Liverpool and is the author of over twenty books and collaborations including four volumes of poetry “In Violet”, "Zig Zag Road", "Afterglow of Zephyrs", "Rebel Hearts" (coming in 2023) and the the autobiography "I Saw Her Standing There" and is the official biographer of two Italian saints - Clare of Assisi and Gemma Galgani of Lucca. John Paul studied in the 1970’s at the John Laird School of Art in Merseyside leading to a long career as a photographer firstly in forensics (yes the scary stuff of “Silent Witness”) then general press, running a studio, advertising, documentary film making and managing Britains largest private photographic and film archive.John Paul notably spent twelve years on Kensington Palace’s royal photographic rota with HRH Diana - Princess of Wales and over the years has featured on television, radio and as a real life character in Blake Morrisons book of stories "Too True”If you would like to know more and to access the poetry, photographs and books, please visit www.johnpaulkirkham.co.uk