*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* A gritty, gripping memoir by the singer
Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age,
Soulsavers), chronicling his years as a singer and drug addict in
Seattle in the '80s and '90s "Mark Lanegan-primitive, brutal, and
apocalyptic. What's not to love?" -Nick Cave, author of The Sick
Bag Song and The Death of Bunny Munro When Mark Lanegan first
arrived in Seattle in the mid-1980s, he was just "an arrogant,
self-loathing redneck waster seeking transformation through rock
'n' roll." Little did he know that within less than a decade, he
would rise to fame as the front man of the Screaming Trees, then
fall from grace as a low-level crack dealer and a homeless heroin
addict, all the while watching some of his closest friends rocket
to the forefront of popular music. In Sing Backwards and Weep,
Lanegan takes readers back to the sinister, needle-ridden streets
of Seattle, to an alternative music scene that was simultaneously
bursting with creativity and dripping with drugs. He tracks the
tumultuous rise and fall of the Screaming Trees, from a brawling,
acid-rock bar band to world-famous festival favorites that scored a
hit #5 single on Billboard's Alternative charts and landed a
notorious performance on David Letterman, where Lanegan appeared
sporting a fresh black eye from a brawl the night before. This book
also dives into Lanegan's personal struggles with addiction,
culminating in homelessness, petty crime, and the tragic deaths of
his closest friends. From the back of the van to the front of the
bar, from the hotel room to the emergency room, onstage, backstage,
and everywhere in between, Sing Backwards and Weep reveals the
abrasive underlining beneath one of the most romanticized decades
in rock history-from a survivor who lived to tell the tale. Gritty,
gripping, and unflinchingly raw, Sing Backwards and Weep is a book
about more than just an extraordinary singer who watched his dreams
catch fire and incinerate the ground beneath his feet. Instead,
it's about a man who learned how to drag himself from the wreckage,
dust off the ashes, and keep living and creating.
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