Axes Chops & Hot Licks: Maple Music 1968 - 1975

A DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF CANADIAN POPULAR MUSIC BY RITCHIE YORKE
ONE OF ITS PIONEERING FORCES

During the 70s, rock music represented one of Canada's fastest growing industries. Her artists, composers and producers were establishing themselves at the top of the pop music world. Hot Licks explores the explosion in Canadian rock, assessing the effects of legislated domestic radio content (from one of its leading supporters), offering the stories behind leading Maple Music talents, revealing why it all took so long to unfold.
Ritchie Yorke was Canada's foremost rock journalist and a pop writer recognised around the world. A regular contributor to Billboard, Rolling Stone, Rainbow, RPM, Jazz and Pop, Circus and NewMusical Express, he also wroteregularcolumns in over 30 newspapers in Nrth America and abroad.