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Play everybody's favorite songs The 300 pages of piano/vocal/guitar
sheet music in this collection allow music makers to bring dozens
of the most memorable songs of the 1960s, '70s, and early '80s to
life. Classic rock fans who love to play will have a blast applying
their talent to more than 40 enduring songs made famous by
legendary artists like The Beatles, David Bowie, Journey, Led
Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, Rush, The Who, and many
more. The arrangements feature piano parts that accurately reflect
each song's familiar original recording. Basic chord fingering
grids are provided for optional guitar accompaniment, along with
vocal melodies and complete lyrics. Titles: 50 Ways to Leave Your
Lover (Paul Simon) * Africa (Toto) * All Along the Watchtower (Jimi
Hendrix) * All My Love (Led Zeppelin) * Behind Blue Eyes (The Who)
* Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell) * Blinded by the Light (Manfred
Mann's Earth Band) * Blowin' in the Wind (Bob Dylan) * Born to Run
(Bruce Springsteen) * Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon and
Garfunkel) * Closer to the Heart (Rush) * Dancing in the Moonlight
(King Harvest) * Do You Feel Like We Do (Peter Frampton) * Don't
Stop Believin' (Journey) * Faithfully (Journey) * Fool in the Rain
(Led Zeppelin) * From Me to You (The Beatles) * Give Up the Funk
(Tear the Roof off the Sucker) (Parliament) * Going Up the Country
(Canned Heat) * The Great Gig in the Sky (Pink Floyd) * I Love L.A.
(Randy Newman) * I Saw Her Standing There (The Beatles) * Like a
Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan) * Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney) * The
Load Out (Jackson Browne) * Love Reign O'er Me (The Who) * Money
(Pink Floyd) * Nights in White Satin (The Moody Blues) * Paranoid
(Black Sabbath) * P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) (Parliament) *
Pinball Wizard (The Who) * River (Joni Mitchell) * Saturday in the
Park (Chicago) * She Loves You (The Beatles) * She's a Rainbow (The
Rolling Stones) * The Sound of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel) *
Space Oddity (David Bowie) *
Combining the International Who's Who in Classical Music and the
International Who's Who in Popular Music, this two-volume set
provides a complete view of the whole of the music world. Within
the International Who's Who in Classical Music, each biographical
entry comprises personal information, principal career details,
repertoire, recordings and compositions, and full contact details
where available. Appendices provide contact details for national
orchestras, opera companies, music festivals, music organizations
and major competitions and awards. The International Who's Who in
Popular Music boasts detailed entries, including full biographical
information, such as principal career details, recordings and
compositions, honours and contact information.
Wild Mood Swings: Disintegrating The Cure Album by Album, Martin
Popoff's innovative new project on iconic post-punk pioneers The
Cure, celebrates 50 years now since key actor of the band Robert
Smith got hold of his first guitar. And the form this celebration
takes is a critical analysis of the band's 13 studio albums,
utilising a panel of thoughtful and engaging music critics culled
from the author's and Marco D'Auria's video channel, The
Contrarians. Presented in easy-to-read Q&A format, Martin
gathers these wise music swamis into small teams with an aim toward
deconstructing and reassembling each album, hopefully generating
myriad new ways for the reader and Cure fan to appreciate the
band's seminal records, beginning with Three Imaginary Boys in 1979
and ending with 4:13 Dream in 2008. As bonus to the discussion,
Popoff has created a detailed timeline linked to each album,
echoing the format used for his many celebrated visual biographies
issued through Wymer Publishing in recent years. The end result
presents a fresh methodology with which to consider a band's
catalogue, with the hope being that the mix of hard chronological
reference material and freewheeling opinion, review and analysis
makes for a lively celebration of-and subsequent richer
appreciation for-everything Robert Smith has done for millions of
Cure fans around the world, much of it therapeutic, redemptive and
in so many inspiring instances, urgently life-saving.
WINNER OF THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2018 In the 1950s and
1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launch pad of musical pioneers
such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green and
Isaac Hayes, and by 1968 was a city synonymous with soul music. It
was a deeply segregated city, ill at ease with the modern world and
yet to adjust to the era of civil rights and racial integration.
Stax Records offered an escape from the turmoil of the real world
for many soul and blues musicians, with much of the music created
there becoming the soundtrack to the civil rights movements. The
book opens with the death of the city's most famous recording
artist, Otis Redding, who died in a plane crash in the final days
of 1967, and then follows the fortunes of Redding's label,
Stax/Volt Records, as its fortunes fall and rise again. But, as the
tense year unfolds, the city dominates world headlines for the
worst of reasons: the assassination of civil rights leader Martin
Luther King.
Festivals is a must-have guide to the world's best and most
memorable music festivals - a list of all those you need to know
and those you should experience. Discover the compelling stories
behind the most significant and exciting events around the world
which shape music and festival culture. This inspirational global
guide showcases 50 bucket list festivals with photographs, posters,
facts and figures, and draws attention to hundreds more to explore.
Highlighting festival giants and jazz classics, pop powerhouses and
indie favourites to dance scene darlings and punk rock adventures,
we travel from Woodstock, Glastonbury, Coachella and Roskilde to
Fuji Rock, Tomorrowland, Burning Man and Afro Punk. Here, the
unique experience of a music festival is evocatively captured and
an overview of the rise of the wonderful world of festival culture
as we know it today revealed. Music journalist and DJ Oliver Keens
writes with expertise, having played across Europe, from
Glastonbury to the top of a Bulgarian mountain, and he guides us
through these special and truly unique cultural gatherings with
insight, bringing the vibrant scenes recounted in these pages to
life.
The official illustrated history of Blue Note, the most influential
and important brand in jazz. Blue Note is not only known as the
purveyor of extraordinary jazz but is also famous as an arbiter of
cool. The superb photography of co-founder Francis Wolff and the
cover designs of Reid Miles were integral to the label's success
and this highly illustrated publication - featuring the very best
photographs, covers and ephemera from the archives, including
never-before-published material - commemorates Blue Note's
momentous contribution to jazz, to art and design, and to the music
business. Tracing the evolution of jazz from the boogie-woogie and
swing of the 1930s, through bebop, funk and fusion, to the eclectic
mix Blue Note releases today, the book also narrates a complex
social history from the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany to the
developments in music and technology in the late 20th century.
Celebrating over eight decades of extraordinary music, this book
demonstrates how Blue Note has stayed true to its founders'
commitment to 'Uncompromising Expression'.
BTS are a global phenomenon. This fully revised and updated
biography covers their journey from their debut to their latest
album, Map of the Soul: 7 (released 21 February 2020), and looks at
how this group of boys from South Korea have taken over the world.
These seven incredibly talented, handsome men can dance, sing and
rap, and write their own songs too. Their music has earned them an
incredibly dedicated fanbase, called ARMY, who sell out stadium
tours and break all kinds of records, from streaming to physical
album sales. With a string of #1 singles and albums in charts all
over the world, BTS have truly broken down the barriers facing
K-pop and achieved huge success in the US, the UK, all across
Europe and South America, as well as Asia. - 'Map of the Soul: 7'
went to #1 on the UK Album Chart and the US Billboard 200 - their
second UK #1 album and fourth US #1 album. In 2019 they became the
first band since The Beatles to have three #1 albums in the US
within one year. - The latest music video 'ON' broke the record for
the biggest YouTube premiere of all time. -'Boy With Luv' broke
YouTube streaming records, hitting 74.6 million views in 24 hours
and becoming the fastest music video to reach 100 million views,
shattering the record previously held by Ariana Grande. -They have
over 24 million followers on Twitter. -They have appeared on the
cover of TIME, Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Paper and
Entertainment Weekly. -They have spoken at the UN as part of their
UNICEF campaign to end violence against children and young people.
-They sold out two nights at London's Wembley Stadium in June 2019,
putting them in the company of Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and
Beyonce. Extensively researched, and written in an upbeat and
accessible style, this book interweaves the backstories of each of
the members with the narrative of the band as a whole, their humble
beginnings and their astonishing rise to fame in their home country
and beyond. It also includes 16 pages of full colour photographs of
the band performing, posing and having fun.
Roger Daltrey is the voice of a generation. That generation was the
first to rebel, to step out of the shadows of the Second World
War... to invent the concept of the teenager. This is the story
from his birth at the height of the Blitz, through tempestuous
school days to his expulsion, age 15, for various crimes and
misdemeanours within a strict school system. Thanks to Mr
Kibblewhite, his authoritarian headmaster, it could all have ended
there. The life of a factory worker beckoned. But then came rock
and roll. He made his first guitar from factory off-cuts. He formed
a band. The band became The Who - Maximum R&B - and, by luck
and by sheer bloody-mindedness, Roger Daltrey became the frontman
of one of the biggest rock bands on the planet. This is the story
of My Generation, Tommy and Quadrophenia, of smashed guitars,
exploding drums, cars in swimming pools, fights, arrests and
redecorated hotel rooms. But it is also the story of how that
post-war generation redefined the rules of youth. Out of that, the
modern music industry was born - and it wasn't an easy birth.
Money, drugs and youthful exuberance were a dangerous mix. This is
as much a story of survival as it is of success. Four years in the
making, this is the first time Roger Daltrey has told his story. It
is not just his own hilarious and frank account of more than 50
wild years on the road. It is the definitive story of The Who and
of the sweeping revolution that was British rock 'n' roll.
The definitive biography of country legend Merle Haggard by the New
York Times bestselling biographer of Clint Eastwood, Cary Grant,
The Eagles, and more.Merle Haggard was one of the most important
country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical
career stretched across the second half of the 20th Century and
into the first two decades of the next, during which he released an
extraordinary 63 albums, 38 that made it on to Billboard's Country
Top Ten, 13 that went to #1, and 37 #1 hit singles. With his ample
songbook, unique singing voice and brilliant phrasing that
illuminated his uncompromising commitment to individual freedom,
cut with the monkey of personal despair on his back and a chip the
size of Monument Valley on his shoulder, Merle's music and his
extraordinary charisma helped change the look, the sound, and the
fury of American music.The Hag tells, without compromise, the
extraordinary life of Merle Haggard, augmented by deep secondary
research, sharp detail and ample anecdotal material that biographer
Marc Eliot is known for, and enriched and deepened by over 100 new
and far-ranging interviews. It explores the uniquely American life
of an angry rebellious boy from the wrong side of the tracks bound
for a life of crime and a permanent home in a penitentiary, who
found redemption through the music of "the common man."Merle
Haggard's story is a great American saga of a man who lifted
himself out of poverty, oppression, loss and wanderlust, to
catapult himself into the pantheon of American artists admired
around the world. Eliot has interviewed more than 100 people who
knew Haggard, worked with him, were influenced by him, loved him or
hated him. The book celebrates the accomplishments and explore the
singer's infamous dark side: the self-created turmoil that
expressed itself through drugs, women, booze, and betrayal. The Hag
offers a richly anecdotal narrative that will elevate the life and
work of Merle Haggard to where both properly belong, in the
pantheon of American music and letters.The Hag is the definitive
account of this unique American original, and will speak to readers
of country music and rock biographies alike.
'This band has no past' was the first line of the farcical
biography printed on the inner sleeve of Cheap Trick's first album,
but the band, of course, did have a past--a past that straddles two
very different decades: from the tumult of the sixties to the
anticlimax of the seventies, from the British Invasion to the
record industry renaissance, with the band's debut album arriving
in 1977, the year vinyl sales peaked. This Band Has No Past tells
the story of a bar band from the Midwest--the best and weirdest bar
band in the Midwest-- and how they doggedly pursued a most unlikely
career in rock'n'roll. It traces every gnarly limb of the family
tree of bands that culminated in Cheap Trick, then details how this
unlikely foursome paid their dues--with interest--night after
night, slogging it out everywhere from high schools to bars to
bowling alleys to fans' back yards, before signing to Epic Records
and releasing two brilliant albums six months apart. Drawing on
more than eighty original interviews, This Band Has No Past is
packed full of new insights and information that fans of the band
will devour. How was the Cheap Trick logo created? How did the
checkerboard pattern come to be associated with the band? When did
Rick Nielsen start wearing a ballcap 24/7? Who caught their mom and
dad rolling on the couch? What kind of beer did David Bowie drink?
And when might characters like Chuck Berry, Frank Zappa, Don
Johnson, Otis Redding, Eddie Munster, Kim Fowley, John Belushi, Jim
Belushi, Elvis Presley, Leslie West, Groucho Marx, Robert F.
Kennedy, Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, The Coneheads, Tom
Petty, Harvey Weinstein, Michael Mann, Linda Blair, Eddie Van
Halen, Elvis Costello, Matt Dillon, and Pam Grier turn up? Read on
and find out.
A singer once said "His pitch was right on the nose: his word
enunciation letter perfect: his understanding of a song thorough.
He will be missed very much, not only by myself, but by his fans
all over the world." The singer was the legendary Frank Sinatra,
the man he spoke about: Matt Monro.
" Matt Monro: The Singer's Singer," is the highly-anticipated story
of one of Britain's most iconic singers, tracing Matt Monro's life
from his poverty stricken upbringing in post-war Britain to his day
job as London bus driver to the steady rise to fame that saw the
singer battling the highs and lows of the entertainment industry to
become one of Britain's best-loved entertainers. This is the man
behind the image, the man who rubbed shoulders with some of the
most famous names in the business, who recorded the very first
James Bond theme song (From Russia with Love) and the international
hits Softly as I Leave You, Born Free, Walk Away and Portrait of My
Love.
In an intimate portrait written by the singer's daughter, Michele
Monro, and drawing on more than two hundred interviews from the
most important characters in Matt's life, "The Singer's Singer"
exposes the man behind the voice, telling the story of how Terry
Parson overcame poverty, prejudice and alcoholism to arrive at the
very heart of the post-war British entertainment industry as the
unforgettable Matt Monro.
Including never-before-seen photography, exclusive correspondence
between Matt and some of the biggest names in the music business
and a rich array of personal anecdotes, this is the first
comprehensive look at the life of the man his peers dubbed 'the
Singer's Singer', the irreplaceable Matt Monro.
Lead author Bruno Nettl. The grand-daddy of Ethnomusicology
compiled the first edition, and his name and contributions to the
field have brought the book forward several editions. Chapters are
written by established/known ethnomusicologists specializing in the
particular region, in the perhaps the most balanced attempt to get
expert authors together. Does not aim to teach students how to do
field work (like Titon), per se, or other ethnomusicological study,
and does not aim to teach music - rather, how to think about music
in world perspective and the major themes and issues that emerge
when we take the musics of the world seriously. Draws a big picture
and explains why the musics of the world matter.....the economics,
politics, and social dynamics of these sounds.
"Before That's the Joint I spent countless hours making
photo-copies of essays and articles on hip hop for my students.
When That's the Joint dropped it changed everything. It took hip
hop studies to the next logical level and, hopefully, with the
second edition Forman and Neal will take hip hop studies to an even
higher level. That's the Joint , indeed, it is the sure shot " --
Reiland Rabaka, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of
Colorado, Boulder, USA "That's the Joint stands as the seminal Hip
Hop studies volume. It is comprehensive in scope, incorporating
works from the leading scholars, journalists and practitioners in
the genre. Moreover, it treats the subject in a rigorous academic
manner, while making the readings accessible to a broader
audience." -- Melina Abdullah, California State University, Los
Angeles, USA That's the Joint : The Hip-Hop Studies Reader brings
together the best-known and most influential writings on rap and
hip-hop from its beginnings to today. Spanning more than 30 years
of scholarship, criticism, and journalism, this unprecedented
anthology showcases the evolution and continuing influence of one
of the most creative and contested elements of global popular
culture since its advent in the late 1970s. Think of it as "Hip-Hop
101." This newly expanded and revised second edition of That's the
Joint brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop
scholarship in one comprehensive volume. Presented thematically,
the selections address the history of hip-hop, identity politics of
the "hip-hop nation," debates of "street authenticity," gender,
revolutionary politics, aesthetics, technologies of production,
hip-hop as a cultural industry, and much more. The new edition
includes expanded coverage of gender and racial diversity in
hip-hop, and takes a look at hip-hop's role in politics, including
the 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama. The new edition
also includes expanded pedagogical fe
Nevermind, Achtung Baby, Use Your Illusion 1&2 - the 90s saw
some classic albums produced by artists such as Nirvana, U2, Gun n'
Roses and Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as a resurgence in country
music popularized by Shania Twain and Garth Brooks. Combining
information from both the US and UK charts provided by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and British
Phonographic Industry (BPI), 100 Best Selling Albums of the 90s
features chart-topping work from Michael Jackson, Puff Daddy and
Green Day. Each album entry is accompanied by the original sleeve
artwork - front and back - and is packed full of facts and
recording information, including a complete track listing, musician
and production credits, and an authoritative commentary on the
record and its place in cultural history. Soundtracks featured
include the 60s and 70s hits on Forrest Gump, the Elton John/Tim
Rice songs in The Lion King, and the orchestral score for Titanic
(and Celine Dion's Oscar-winning My Heart Will Go On). Other
stand-out albums include the Eagles' reforming to make Hell Freezes
Over and Eric Clapton's Unplugged, a career revival for him in the
popular 90s back-to-basics semi-acoustic series. With vinyl sales
now at their highest in 25 years, 100 Best Selling Albums of the
90s is an expert celebration of popular music from Sheryl Crow to
Shania Twain, from the Spice Girls to the Backstreet Boys, from
Gloria Estefan to Michael Jackson to Lauryn Hill.
Pete Brown is a lot of things. A major songwriting talent who was
responsible for Cream's classic musical moments, important
collaborations with Jack Bruce and such notable experiments in jazz
and rock as The Battered Ornaments, Graham Bond and countless
progressive music groups. A talented poet who helped pioneer the
emerging UK Beat scene in the sixties, making history with his
earliest performances and going poetic toe to toe with the likes of
Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso. He was
also a child of war and the memories of The Blitz are still with
him to this day. He is an anarchist at heart who believes in the
mantra of telling it like it is and has done as much through the
decades of a songwriter, musician, producer and poet. Within
certain circles Pete Brown is a legend, a creative force of nature
who is constantly on the move to the next big thing. To much of the
world, Pete Brown is an unknown quantity, known for his Cream fame
and not much else. With this book, Pete Brown: The Poet Who Rocks,
the creative whirlwind will be on full display. This is Pete Brown.
Now his story can be told.
A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of
Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to
Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before
the tall tales of success and excess, there was the true story of
James Dixon Swan - a working class boy whose family made the
journey from Scotland to Australia in search of a better life.
Working Class Boy is a powerful reflection on a traumatic and
violent childhood, which fuelled the excess and recklessness that
would define, but almost destroy, the rock'n'roll legend. This is
the story of how James Swan became Jimmy Barnes. It is a memoir
burning with the frustration and frenetic energy of teenage sex,
drugs, violence and ambition for more than what you have. Raw,
gritty, compassionate, surprising and darkly funny - Jimmy Barnes's
childhood memoir is at once the story of migrant dreams fulfilled
and dashed. Arriving in Australia in the Summer of 1962, things
went from bad to worse for the Swan family - Dot, Jim and their six
kids. The scramble to manage in the tough northern suburbs of
Adelaide in the 60s would take its toll on the Swans as dwindling
money, too much alcohol, and fraying tempers gave way to violence
and despair. This is the story a family's collapse, but also a
young boy's dream to escape the misery of the suburbs with a
once-in-a-lifetime chance to join a rock'n'roll band and get out of
town for good.
Discover music that dared to be different, risked reputations and
put careers in jeopardy - causing fascination and intrigue in some
and rejection and scorn in others. This is what happens when people
take tradition and rip it up. MusicQuake tells the stories of 50
pivotal albums and performances that shook the world of modern
music - chronicling the fascinating tales of their creation,
reception and legacy. Tracing enigmatic composers, risque
performers and radical songwriters - this books introduces the
history of 20th century music in a new light. From George Gershwin
and John Cage to Os Mutantes and Fela Kuti; from Patti Smith and
The Slits to Public Enemy and Missy Elliott - by discussing each
entry within the context of its creation, the book will give
readers true insight into why each moment was so pivotal and tell
the stories surrounding the most exciting music ever produced. Some
were shocking, others confusing, beautiful and surreal; some were
scorned on release, others were chart toppers; and yet more
inspired entire movements and generations of new musicians. These
cutting-edge works, which celebrate novelty, technology and
innovation, help define what music is today - acting as prime
examples of how powerful songs can be. This book is from the
Culture Quake series, which looks into iconic moments of culture
which truly created paradigm shifts in their respective fields.
Also available are ArtQuake, FilmQuake and FashionQuake.
Regina Mingotti was the first female impresario to run London's
opera house. Born in Naples in 1722, she was the daughter of an
Austrian diplomat, and had worked at Dresden under Hasse from 1747.
Mingotti left Germany in 1752, and travelled to Madrid to sing at
the Spanish court, where the opera was directed by the great
castrato, Farinelli. It is not known quite how Francesco Vanneschi,
the opera promoter, came to hire Mingotti, but in 1754 (travelling
to England via Paris), she was announced as being engaged for the
opera in London 'having been admired at Naples and other parts of
Italy, by all the Connoisseurs, as much for the elegance of her
voice as that of her features'. Michael Burden offers the first
considered survey of Mingotti's London years, including material on
Mingotti's publication activities, and the identification of the
characters in the key satirical print 'The Idol'. Burden makes a
significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of
eighteenth-century singers' careers and status, and discusses the
management, the finance, the choice of repertory, and the pasticcio
practice at The King's Theatre, Haymarket during the middle of the
eighteenth century. Burden also argues that Mingotti's years with
Farinelli influenced her understanding of drama, fed her
appreciation of Metastasio, and were partly responsible for London
labelling her a 'female Garrick'. The book includes the important
publication of the complete texts of both of Mingotti's Appeals to
the Publick, accounts of the squabble between Mingotti and
Vanneschi, which shed light on the role a singer could play in the
replacement of arias.
Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award, Rock & Roll
Hall of Fame Winner of the American Book Award, Before Columbus
Foundation Winner of the PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award Winner
of the MAAH Stone Book Award A Pitchfork Best Music Book of the
Year A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year A Boston Globe
Summer Read "Brooks traces all kinds of lines...inviting voices to
talk to one another, seeing what different perspectives can offer,
opening up new ways of looking and listening." -New York Times "A
wide-ranging study of Black female artists, from elders like Bessie
Smith and Ethel Waters to Beyonce and Janelle Monae...Connecting
the sonic worlds of Black female mythmakers and truth-tellers."
-Rolling Stone "A gloriously polyphonic book." -Margo Jefferson,
author of Negroland How is it possible that iconic artists like
Aretha Franklin and Beyonce can be both at the center and on the
fringe of the culture industry? Daphne Brooks explores more than a
century of music archives to bring to life the critics, collectors,
and listeners who have shaped our perceptions of Black women both
on stage and in the recording studio. Liner Notes for the
Revolution offers a startling new perspective, informed by the
overlooked contributions of other Black women artists. We discover
Zora Neale Hurston as a sound archivist and performer, Lorraine
Hansberry as a queer feminist critic of modern culture, and Pauline
Hopkins as America's first Black female cultural commentator.
Brooks tackles the complicated racial politics of blues music
recording, song collecting, and rock and roll criticism in this
long overdue celebration of Black women musicians as radical
intellectuals.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2021 AND THE PENDERYN MUSIC
BOOK PRIZE 2022 THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICON Sinead
O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the
age of twenty-one. Her recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U
made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up a
photograph of Pope John Paul II on American television. O'Connor
was unapologetic and impossible to ignore, calling out hypocrisy
wherever she saw it. She has remained that way for three decades.
Now, in Rememberings, O'Connor tells her story - the heartache of
growing up in a family falling apart; her early forays into the
Dublin music scene; her adventures and misadventures in the world
of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll; the fulfilment of being a mother;
her ongoing spiritual quest - and through it all, her abiding
passion for music. Rememberings is intimate, replete with candid
anecdotes and full of hard-won insights. It is a unique and
remarkable chronicle by a unique and remarkable artist. 'Inspiring,
liberating, hilarious and fascinating' Irish Times 'Beautifully
observed ... lyrical, funny and anguished' Guardian 'Her voice on
the page is as fearless, riveting and unforgettable as her voice in
song. The cadence alone is hypnotic, her story essential.
Rememberings is a must-read' Michael Stipe 'So good, you'll want to
read it twice' Sunday Independent 'A soul-bearing, brutally honest
account of an extraordinary life' BBC Online 'Tremendous . . .
fierce and funny' Sunday Times Books of the Year
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