* HET PLAATJESBOEK, by Leo Blokhuis

    'Plaatje' is both a small picture, but also a small record - a vinyl single. So plaatjesboek means picture book, or comicbook, but also recordbook - specifically pointing at singles then. The author Leo Blokhuis is a self-proclaimed 'Pop-professor'.
   The book is a colourful, richly illustrated discovery trip through the history of pop/rockmusic.
It has a curious cover which shows a Bob Dylan in concert ticket-stub for Ahoy Rotterdam, but it's a doctored one: the real tickets for all three Ahoy shows have a different design. Chapter 12 is about Bob Dylan and shows a fake concert poster (19 September 1960, Greenwich village). Why show fake documents when it's so easy to show the real ones?
    It comes with a various artists CD which includes a cover version of Don't Think Twice It's All Right by Ricky Koole, wife of author Leo Blokhuis.

Ambo 2007, Amsterdam, 204 pages, paperback. ISBN 9789026320903.

Thank you to Hans Bosch for this item. [0725]