Part memoir, part reportage, Louder Than Bombs is a story of music
from the front lines. Ed Vulliamy, a decorated war correspondent
and journalist, offers a testimony of his lifelong passion for
music. Vulliamy's reporting has taken him around the world to cover
the Bosnian war, the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of
Communism, the Iraq wars of 1991 and 2003 onward, narco violence in
Mexico, and more, places where he confronted stories of violence,
suffering, and injustice. Through it all, Vulliamy has turned to
music not only as a reprieve but also as a means to understand and
express the complicated emotions that follow. Describing the
artists, songs, and concerts that most influenced him, Vulliamy
brings together the two largest threads of his life-music and war.
Louder Than Bombs covers some of the most important musical
milestones of the past fifty years, from Jimi Hendrix playing
"Machine Gun" at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 to the Bataclan
in Paris under siege in 2015. Vulliamy was present for many of
these historic moments, and with him as our guide, we see them
afresh, along the way meeting musicians like B. B. King, Graham
Nash, Patti Smith, Daniel Barenboim, Gustavo Dudamel, and Bob
Dylan. Vulliamy peppers the book with short vignettes-which he dubs
7" singles-recounting some of his happiest memories from a lifetime
with music. Whether he's working as an extra in the Vienna State
Opera's production of Aida, buying blues records in Chicago, or
drinking coffee with Joan Baez, music is never far from his mind.
As Vulliamy discovers, when horror is unspeakable, when words seem
to fail us, we can turn to music for expression and comfort, or for
rage and pain. Poignant and sensitively told, Louder Than Bombs is
an unforgettable record of a life bursting with music.
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