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Always steered by Alex Paterson, The Orb were the mischief-making
pioneers of the late 80s acid house revolution. Inventing "ambient
house", they took it to the top of the charts, before continuing
its idiosyncratic flight path through subsequent decades, battling
meteor storms en route. Babble On An' Ting, the first full account
of Paterson's life, written by long-time friend Kris Needs in close
collaboration with Alex, reveals a frequently astonishing journey
from traumatic childhood through punk, Killing Joke and KLF to
starting The Orb in 1988, then the five decade roller coaster that
followed. Moving, shocking, hilarious and inspiring, at the heart
of this story lies a true survivor doggedly following their musical
passion. First-hand interviews include those with Youth, Andrew
Weatherall, Primal Scream, Jah Wobble, Jimmy Cauty and a parade of
friends, collaborators and starship mechanics.
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Trash (Paperback)
Kris Needs, Dick Porter
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R475
R392
Discovery Miles 3 920
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The New York Dolls played an integral role in laying the
foundations of punk rock. By taking the flamboyant sass of Jagger
and Richards to outrageous extremes and combining it with
down-and-dirty rock 'n' roll, the Dolls -- fronted by icons David
Johansen and Sylvan Sylvain -- brought the punk scene to a fever
pitch and inspired both fans and musicians like the Sex Pistols and
Marilyn Manson. From their origins in the street gangs of New
York's outer boroughs, through their recent rebirth and the
untimely death of bassist Arthur Kane, "Trash! offers a
comprehensive look at these gender-bending scenesters.
Featuring first-hand reminiscences, interviews with band members,
revealing tour anecdotes, archival material, and 75 black-and-white
photos, "Trash! covers every leopard-clad inch of these glamsters'
heyday. Set mostly in the chaotic and creative maelstrom of the
mid-'70s New York scene, the book also profiles the individual band
members' post-Dolls careers.
If one band could be said to symbolize British punk in its heyday,
that band is The Clash. As a young journalist on tour with all of
punk's biggest names, Kris Needs forged lifelong friendships with
The Clash while witnessing their wild exploits firsthand. One of
the first journalists to see the band live, Needs championed them
from the start, becoming close friends with Joe Strummer and the
rest of the group, accompanying them on many major tours, and being
present at pivotal moments in their career. Combining his own
anecdotal and press material from the era with a wealth of
biographical detail and photographs, Needs illuminates the legend
with accounts of life-changing gigs, on-the-road antics, and the
recording sessions that produced the critically revered and
ever-popular albums. The book pays special attention to the late
Joe Strummer - his motivations and passions and his place as a punk
pioneer.
"The World's Blackest White Man." "The World's Most Elegantly
Wasted Human Being." "The Human Riff." These descriptions are all
part of the myth surrounding the legendary songwriter and rhythm
guitarist of the Rolling Stones. A veteran observer of the rock
scene on both sides of the Atlantic, Kris Needs has interviewed
Keith Richards regularly for 25 years. Drawing on archives,
interviews, and his encyclopedic knowledge of the Stones'
discography, he reveals the complex man behind the myth, from
blues-infatuated working class kid to world-renowned musician
nearly ruined by heroin to present-day elder statesman of rock who
continues to find personal redemption in music.
The first in-depth biography of one of music's most fascinating,
colourful and innovative characters. This book is the most
comprehensive history yet of the life, music and cultural
significance of the last of the great black music pioneers and the
era which spawned him. Clinton stands alongside James Brown, Jimi
Hendrix and Sly Stone as one of the most influential black artists
of all time who, along with his vast P-Funk army took black funk
into the US charts and sold out stadiums by the mid 1970s with his
mind-blowing shows and legendary Mothership extravaganzas. The book
contains first hand interview material with Clinton, Bootsy
Collins, Jerome "Bigfoot" Brailey, Junie Morrison, Bobby Gillespie,
Afrika Bambaataa, Jalal Nuriddin (Last Poets), Juan Atkins, John
Sinclair, Rob Tyner (MC5), Ed Sanders (The Fugs), Chip Monck ("The
Voice of Woodstock") plus other P-Funk associates and friends. The
book presents an insiders' view of the rise of Parliament and
Funkadelic from the doowop era and LSD-crazed early shows through
to P-Funk's huge rise, the era of the Mothership and beyond.
Just A Shot Away:69 Revisited is veteran author-journalist Kris
Needs' highly-personal account of 1969 as he experienced it
happening; from starting the year as a wide-eyed 14-year-old
Rolling Stones/Hendrix nut and turning 15 the day Brian Jones died
to becoming part of the UK's longest-running club and befriending
its hottest new band. There have been endless books that take a
well-researched look at that tumultuous year but few that actually
live it in real time. Rather than recycle hoary cliches about
Manson and Altamont snuffing the 60s after Woodstock's brief
optimism, or any ludicrous rivalry between the Beatles and Stones,
Kris remembers the gigs, bands and records that bombarded his own
young radar and helped shape his future life as a music writer, DJ
and, briefly fan club secretary. With John Peel a lifeline, 1969
was pivotal for Kris, including the births of the legendary Friars
Aylesbury rock club, for which he designed the membership card and
flyers, Pete Frame's Zigzag magazine, which he later wrote for
before becoming editor, and Mott The Hoople, who he befriended
after they played his school dance and ended up running their fan
club. As a member of the Jimi Hendrix fan club, he witnessed the
guitarist in concert, plunging himself in black music and becoming
fascinated with the Black Power movement. As a lifelong Stones fan,
he saw them early and ended up hanging out with Keith Richards in
later years. There was never time to care about the death of a
decade in which he was coming alive, let alone any loss of
innocence when he couldn't lose his fast enough. With Foreword by
his mentor Pete Frame, Kris's 45 year career as a music writer
impacts on the narrative time machine fashion, including sessions
with Keith Richards, Captain Beefheart, George Clinton and Marianne
Faithfull, epic conversations with Ian Hunter, the Doors, the Magic
Band, the Fugs, Traffic, Silver Apples, Last Poets, "voice of
Woodstock" Chip Monck and many more. Obviously, the book gains
perspectives and knowledge from 50 years reading, writing,
listening, investigating and living a life the teenage Needs (or
anyone else, for that matter!) could never have imagined, some of
those leading characters becoming lifelong friends. The book also
carries a sad back story as, while Kris was writing it, his beloved
partner Helen, who he fell in love with at a Mott The Hoople
reunion gig in 2013, succumbed to cancer, his grief inevitably
tangible and casting a tragic shadow over the story. Helen's death
instilled a greater appreciation of life when it was just getting
under way, along with the romantic notion that none of his many
experiences can ever compare to finding his true soul mate. Helen's
death resulted in Kris moving back to the family home with his
93-year-old mum; now writing in the same bedroom where he
experienced 1969 as it unfolded, and still getting told to turn
down his Rolling Stones records! Once Kris finished writing the
book, it was twice as long as the average music tome so will now
come in two volumes, each covering half that year.
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