Since 2011, Kane conducted extensive research, including over one hundred interviews with music legends from the production and performance side of the industry. By studying both his history during the festivals and his independent business ventures, Kane seeks to present an honest portrayal of Hanley and his acumen and contributions. After huge financial losses and facing stiff competition, Hanley lost his hold on a business he helped create. The music industry shifted, and new sound companies surfaced. By the early seventies the post-Woodstock festival mass gathering movement collapsed. Hanley’s innovations founded the sound reinforcement industry and launched a new area of technology, rich with clarity and intelligibility.

John Kane examines Hanley’s echoing impact on the entire field of sound engineering, that crucial but often-overlooked carrier wave of contemporary music. Since the 1950s his passion for audio has changed the way audiences listen to and technicians approach quality live concert sound. Stories of his on-the-fly solutions resonate as legend among festivalgoers, music lovers, and sound engineers. Hanley is credited with creating the sound of Woodstock, which literally made the massive festival possible. 1937) made his indelible mark as a sound engineer at the 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Fair. Praise for Against the Tide, John Hanley's first novel.Known as the 'Father of Festival Sound,' Bill Hanley (b. The Last Boat will appeal to readers of historical fiction who appreciate the complexities and uncertainties facing young adults as their world is forever shattered by war. During this journey they encounter a cargo so important that only Miko, the refugee physicist, really understands what could happen should the Germans intercept it. But this is only a beginning for Jack, Saul, Miko and Lt Commander Brewster who survive the attack and must fight their way back to Jersey through the German advance.

The news is so shocking that Churchill suppresses it and the report into the loss will remain sealed until 2040. These losses represent more than one third of all members of the British Expeditionary Force killed in the nine months of war so far. In the ten minutes of bombing and strafing, over 5,000 troops and civilians are blown apart by the high explosive bombs. The Last Boat is the second novel by John Hanley, and the follow up to Against the Tide The book opens in the middle of the greatest naval disaster in British history when the Luftwaffe bombs and sinks the hastily converted Cunard liner, HMT Lancastria.

The Last Boat by John F. Hanley