It takes the average reader 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Blowing the Blues by Dick Heckstall-Smith
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This is the autobiography of a master musician, the King of British blues saxophone. In the 60s and 70s Dick was the cornerstone of such seminal R&B bands as Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated, the Graham Bond Organisation, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and Colosseum, paving the way for R&B-influenced rock groups like Fleetwood Mac, the Yardbirds, the Animals and the Rolling Stones. With his pithy humour, Dick describes the revolutionary founding years of British R&B - his anecdotes about Ginger Baker, Alexis Korner, Charlie Watts and the unforgettable Graham Bond alone are worth the price. An...
Blowing the Blues by Dick Heckstall-Smith is 255 pages long, and a total of 65,025 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 55 minutes to read Blowing the Blues aloud.
Blowing the Blues is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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