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Foreground Music - A Life in Fifteen Gigs (Paperback)
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Foreground Music - A Life in Fifteen Gigs (Paperback)
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List price R546
Loot Price R517
Discovery Miles 5 170
You Save R29 (5%)
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A chronicle of a lifetime's passion for gig-going, by one of
British television's most respected writers. "Foreground Music is
an absolute gem. Charming, very funny and often achingly
melancholy, Graham Duff's memoir is suffused with a genuine passion
for live music and its (occasionally eccentric) power. -Mark Gatiss
The result of a lifetime's passion for gig-going by one of British
television's most respected writers, Foreground Music is at once
enthusiastically detailed and tremendously illuminating-of both the
concert moment and its place in popular culture. It is an engaging
memoir of a life lived to the fullest, and a vivid, insightful, and
humorous exploration of what music writing might be. Foreground
Music describes music performances that range from a Cliff Richard
gospel concert, attended by Duff at the age of ten, to the
fourteen-year-old Duff's first rock show, where the Jam played so
loudly he blacks out, to a Joy Division gig that erupted into a
full-scale riot. Duff goes on pub crawls with Mark E. Smith of the
Fall, convinces Paul Weller to undertake his first acting role, and
attempts to interview Genesis P. Orridge of Throbbing Gristle while
tripping on LSD. Foreground Music captures the energy and power of
life-changing gigs, while tracing the evolution of forty years of
musical movements and subcultures. But more than that, it's an
honest, touching, and very funny story of friendship, love,
creativity, and mortality, and a testimony to music's ability to
inspire and heal. Illustrated with photographs and ephemera from
the author's private collection.
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