And on Piano...Nicky Hopkins

London-born Nicky Hopkins (d. 1994) played keyboards on songs by the Who, the Kinks, and the Rolling Stones; was a member of the Jeff Beck Group; performed at Woodstock with Jefferson Airplane; contributed to solo works by John Lennon, George Harrison, and Jerry Garcia; and made several solo albums of his own. In this first biographical examination, Dawson, a singer-songwriter who collaborated with and befriended Hopkins, chronicles Hopkins's story from the burgeoning and vigorous London rock scene of the swinging Sixties to superstar sessions in the Seventies. Dawson uses his interviews with many of Hopkins's associates and family members as well as published source material to document his childhood, battles with chronic illness, and the drug use and subsequent sobriety and contentment at the end of Hopkins's life.