Was sad to see John Cavanagh had died. Great music journalist and nice guy. I haven't read the book above but it's on my list. Another book he wrote which is very good is Good Night and Good Riddance: How 35 Years of John Peel Helped to Shape Modern LifeThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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02-01-2019 06:09 PM #31
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02-01-2019 06:19 PM #32This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I am a music obsessive who has a bad habit of buying music related books but not getting round to reading them!
I should make a big effort to read them this year including some in your list above.
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03-01-2019 07:13 AM #33
Got the Lilly Allen book for Christmas, ploughing through it. Big fan of her music, hard to work out what I think of her so far
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07-01-2019 05:27 PM #34
Reading Then Came The Great Divide by Tony Butler. Interesting stuff if you’re a fan of Big Country in any way.
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07-01-2019 07:34 PM #35
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Not read it myself but Chris Difford Of Squeeze’s book is supposed to be excellent it’s on my list.
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07-01-2019 07:36 PM #36This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Had loads of them at the side of my bed until I discovered alcohol in 1980.
Sadly barfed over the whole lot.
ANYTHING by Rick Wakeman.
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08-01-2019 11:24 PM #37This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The book by Bill Wyman was more informative about the music.
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12-01-2019 07:08 AM #38This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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12-01-2019 02:54 PM #40This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The chapter on his second marriage is a bit cringe-making.
He's 82 now!
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30-05-2019 09:14 PM #41This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It did make me think again about how I perceive The Strokes. Were always heroes to me and I hadn’t really stopped to think that they didn’t actually sell that many records. Or really think about their progression or lack thereof and how they struggled themselves to really know what they wanted from their music.
It does also capture that time when you basically found out about the next band via NME. And they were just lifting their content from New York bloggers! What a time to come up in NYC.
Interesting to see how much of a prick Ryan Adams seems to be also, after the stories that broke about him last year.
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01-10-2020 10:38 AM #42
I’m reading Stuart Cosgrove’s new book “Cassius X”, very much in the mould of his soul trilogy I mention in the opening post. It’s about Mohamed Ali (still Cassius Clay at this point) in Miami in ‘63 and the social and political landscape of black power, Malcolm X etc through the prism of of his love of soul and friendship with the likes of Sam Cooke & Dee Dee Sharpe.
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01-10-2020 11:36 AM #43
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01-10-2020 11:51 AM #44
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I've just finished Bruce Dickenson's book. What does this button do?
Would recommend.
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01-10-2020 04:45 PM #45
Surprised none of these have been mentioned (or I've missed them?) (or maybe it's an age thing?:
The Beatles - "The Beatles Anthology"
Paul McCartney (Barry Miles) - "Many Years From Now"
John Lennon (Jan. S. Wenner) - "Lennon Remembers - The Full Rolling Stone Interview"
Ian MacDonald - "Revolution in the Head"
Brian Wilson - "I am Brian Wilson: The Genius Behind the Beach Boys"
Bob Dylan - "Chronicles - Volume One"
Sting - "Broken Music"
Elvis Costello - "Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink"
Kent Hartman - "The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock & Roll's Best-Kept Secret"
Collection of Tom Waits interviews (MacM Montandon) - "Innocent When You Dream"
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