Have started the year with two music memoirs / autobiographies: -
Horace Panter's - Ska'd for Life and Neil Young's - Waging Heavy Peace
Panter's book tells of how he became the bass player in The Specials . It is very good on the UK music scene in the late 70s and early 80s, and on the little niggles that can cause bands to split up.
Here's the masterful, Ghost Town
Young's book is an odd beast. It is almost compulsivley digressive and thus, at times, infuriating. The structure being more a 'stream of consciousness, what shall I write today'. This makes it engaging and infuriating in equal measure. But there are enough heartfelt nuggets and insights within its pages to make it all worthwhile in the end. It is also strangley compelling.
Horace Panter's - Ska'd for Life and Neil Young's - Waging Heavy Peace
Panter's book tells of how he became the bass player in The Specials . It is very good on the UK music scene in the late 70s and early 80s, and on the little niggles that can cause bands to split up.
Here's the masterful, Ghost Town
Young's book is an odd beast. It is almost compulsivley digressive and thus, at times, infuriating. The structure being more a 'stream of consciousness, what shall I write today'. This makes it engaging and infuriating in equal measure. But there are enough heartfelt nuggets and insights within its pages to make it all worthwhile in the end. It is also strangley compelling.
From the album Landing on Water - his first after he settled the case brought against by Geffen Records for submitting albums
that were non-commercial and 'musically uncharacteristic' - Here is Touch the Night.
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Another book about the late 70's/early 80's period you might enjoy is called Love Goes To A Building On Fire. It's about New York punk, disco and the birth of the rap scene.
Funny enough, I once bought that for someone as a gift but have never gotten around to reading a copy myself!
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