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Nilsson - The Life of a Singer-Songwriter (Hardcover)
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Nilsson - The Life of a Singer-Songwriter (Hardcover)
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Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles'
"favorite group," and yet no figure in popular music is as much of
a paradox as Harry Nilsson. A major celebrity at a time when
stadium rock was in its infancy and huge concerts and festivals
were becoming the norm, Nilsson's instrument was the studio, his
stage the dubbing booth, his greatest technical triumphs were
masterful examples of studio craft, and he studiously avoided live
performance. He was a gifted composer of songs for a wide variety
of performers, having created vivid flights of imagination for the
Ronettes, the Yardbirds and the Monkees, yet Nilsson's own biggest
hits were almost all written, ironically, by other composers and
lyricists. He won two Grammies, had two top ten singles, and
numerous album successes. Once described by his producer Richard
Perry as "the finest white male singer on the planet," near the end
of his life, his career was marked by voice-damaging substance
abuse and the infamous deaths of both Keith Moon and Mama Cass in
his London flat. His music remains prevalent today, through the
1995 tribute album For the Love of Harry: Everybody Sings Nilsson
(featuring performances of Nilsson's hits by Ringo Starr, Stevie
Nicks, Fred Schneider and others) and recent covers, such as Aimee
Mann's recording of "One" (popularized as the main track on the
Magnolia soundtrack) and Neko Case's arrangement of "Don't Forget
Me" on her album, Middle Cyclone. In this first ever full-length
biography of Nilsson, author Alyn Shipton traces Nilsson's life
from his Brooklyn childhood to his Los Angeles adolescence, and
charts his gradual move into the spotlight as a talented
songwriter. With interviews from Nilsson's friends, family and
associates, and material drawn from an unfinished draft
autobiography Nilsson was writing prior to his death, Shipton
probes beneath the enigma and the paradox to discover the real
Harry Nilsson, and thereby reveals one of the most creative talents
in 20th century popular music.
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