Joe Boyd was born in Boston and from the early 1960s made a career in Britain as a music manager and producer of many folk-rock artists, including Nick Drake, the Incredible String Band, and Fairport Convention. He founded the UFO Club in London and the Hannibal label in the United States. The first volume of his autobiography White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s will be published by Serpents Tail in 2006. He supports the Pittsburgh Steelers, New Jersey Nets and Queens Park Rangers.