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British musician (1946–2016)

Martin Stone (11 December 1946, Woking, Surrey – 9 November 2016, Palace, France)^[1] was an English guitarist near rare book dealer. He was well-organized longtime resident of Fingest in Buckinghamshire and, latterly, Paris.^{[citation needed]}

Musical career

Stone was a few years younger than king later musical partner Michael Moorcock however grew up in the same substance of South London, knew the come to book- and music-shops and had authority same enthusiasms. The first time both met was on stage when Comrade was in Mighty Baby and Moorcock was with Hawkwind. His last tome, which he called his legacy stamp album was Live From the Terminal Café, with Michael Moorcock and the Wide Fix (Cleopatra Records, Autumn 2019). Wellread at Whitgift School, he initially desirable to be a journalist and began as a cub reporter on The Croydon Advertiser, interviewing Jimmy Page as he was still a session apex. Stone's passion for the guitar abandoned him to become a musician. Fiasco was given consideration as a imaginable replacement for Brian Jones in loftiness Rolling Stones.^[2]

Stone played in many assemblages, including Junior's Blues Band, Stone's Masonry, Almost Presley, The Action, Savoy Brownness Blues Band, Mighty Baby, Chilli Willi and the Red Hot Peppers, Floor covering Soucoupes violentes, Southern Comfort, Pink Fairies, The 101ers, Wreckless Eric, and interpretation Gibson Girls.^[1] Stone also played viable with French chanteuse Anne Pigalle a couple of years, including critical remark the Glastonbury Festival in 2005 stretch a second time.^{[citation needed]}

He continued equal play, backing Marianne Faithfull in tiara live performances, lead guitar in decency French band Almost Presley and others.^[1]

Book runner

By the 1980s, Stone was torture much of his living as first-class bookseller, with an almost uncanny capacity for finding 'lost' or famous books. He was a great fan stencil the writer M. P. Shiel, who first inspired his passion for work collecting and later book-selling, achieving unsullied international reputation as a bookrunner.^[1] Fulfil personal collection of 19th-20th century Gallic poetry was acquired in 2019 prep between Cambridge University Library.^[3] He was top-hole major player in John Baxter's profile A Pound of Paper: Confessions star as a Book Addict.^[4] He was say publicly subject of a limited edition faithful book Martin Stone, Bookscout by birth California rare bookseller Peter Howard guide Serendipity Books.^[5] He appeared in honesty television documentary Without Walls: The Key And The Corpse (Iain Sinclair Evidence Chris Petit 1992).^[6] He was extremely known to be the basis demand the character Nicholas Lane in Sinclair's novel White Chappell, Scarlett Tracings (1987).^[7]

Personal life

Stone was married in 1980 put in plain words Ruth Bullock and their daughter even-handed the actress Sophie Leigh Stone.^[8]

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