New Music Books Out On...
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A new book on the history of pop songs sounds promising, informative and entertaining--praises pop songs as often very important in the culture, in general, not just pop culture--will come back with more info on this book
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I found autobiographies of Chuck Berry and Jimmy Buffet at a book sale
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New Paul Simon biography "Homeward Bound" has received great reviews
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There's a new collection of John Lennon interviews just out called Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon.
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Elton John is writing his autobiography
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beatlesfanrandy:
There's a new collection of John Lennon interviews just out called Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon.
Will the Playboy interviews be included, you think? Yoko was in on those, too. Lennon was quite loquacious Had the Irish gift of gab
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SusyLuvsPaul:
beatlesfanrandy:
There's a new collection of John Lennon interviews just out called Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon.
Will the Playboy interviews be included, you think? Yoko was in on those, too. Lennon was quite loquacious Had the Irish gift of gab
No. Playboy published that interview as a 200 page book. But it does have, sadly, his last interview recorded by RKO Radio on the day he died, Dec. 8, 1980.
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"Beatlebone" by Kevin Barry (Anchor, fiction, reprint). Novelist Barry imagines Beatle John Lennon in 1978, going to a private island to find some creative space. Robbie Robertson's new autobiography is written in a flat, dull style, as if trying not to reveal too much. Needed jazzing up. Badly.
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The new Hank Williams biography, just read it--heartbreaking, upsetting, will tell more about it later. Right now it's just to sad to go into, so soon after reading
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Read "Not Dead Yet" (cheerful title!) by Phil Collins (because the library had it). Reads like he dictated just about the whole thing to someone. Transcribed. He's a sour puss at times, but he seldom brags. My sister said of the photo section, of the pix with ex-Genesis member Peter Gabriel (when he was real young, with very long hair), "He was good looking...I bet he got a lot of poontang." I burst out laughing at the way she phrased it. The last part of the tome, about his very heavy drinking, got quite harrowing. Took him lots of attempts to finally dry out. I don't understand how someone can drink so much--well, he was an alcoholic.
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Judy Collins has a new book out called "Cravings"
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SusyLuvsPaul:
New Michael Jackson biography: "The Genuis of Michael Jackson" by Steve Kopper Chrissie Hynde's autobiography is entitled "Reckless" and subtitled "My Life as A Pretender" (she seems genuine, though!) John Fogerty's is called "Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music" and among other things describes his dismay when the other band members wanted to contribute their original songs to albums by Creedence Clearwater Revival. He implies they weren't good songwriters. That he was the head honcho in that department. Seems a bit of a diva(?).
__________________________________________________________ Fortunate Son by John Fogerty was a very good read on multiple levels. Here are just a few of the subjects I found so interesting: * How the whole band got screwed by their manager and the record company via extremely low royalties and no ownership *How John particularly got screwed since he was the sole songwriter and producer. According to John, he gave up his sole songwriter royalties (which were very low) in favor of the whole group receiving equal royalties. He got screwed on both levels. Instead of his bandmates (including his brother) appreciating what he did, they became increasingly jealous of the attention that John received. *His relationship with his brother which was good in the beginning to terrible at the end. *The comparisons he gave about his contributions to CCR vs. the Beatles and their individual contributions. Multiple times in the book he mentioned the huge talents in songwriting and singing abilities of Paul, John and George vs. how he had to to everything himself...songwriting, producing etc. *How the other members of the group (minus his brother who had left) forced John to change the direction of the group to being much more democratic where the 3 members had equal say in the final product of their last couple of albums. What happened from this direction was the worse selling albums CCR ever produced and the ending of the band. *How when John Fogerty became a Solo Artist, he got sued for plagiarism when his former company tried to say that one of his new songs was too much like one of his old CCR hits. I read most of the book while I was in Barnes and Noble and was fascinated about the inter workings of one of the major US Rock Pop Artists in the 60's and 70's. It is obvious that the book was written from John Fogerty's point of view but with that being said, it is also a known fact that John (unlike the Beatles) was "the" major talent in the group. Besides the fascination of personality problems within a group, it is also a microcosm of how creative music people can get totally screwed by the business people running the music business.
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Thanks for that review, B.J., you made me want to read that !! New Jimmy Webb autobiography "Cake and Rain"
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"Dolly on Dolly" by Dolly Parton Jessi Coulter has a new book, too called "An Outlaw and A Lady"
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There is a new book on Pink Floyd coming out end of June. Called "Their Mortal Remains", it is a companion piece to the exhibition just opened in London at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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"A Portrait of Bowie" compiled by Brian Hiatt--David Bowie's closest friends and admirers including Debbie Harry and Nile Rogers share memories of the visionary artist, includes rare photos and paintings
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Patti Smith wrote a new book about her "life journey" and career, called "Devotion."
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"Reckless Daughter" new biography of Joni Mitchell to be published October 17, 2017 "Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell"
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Two new books about The Beatles are out this month. First is The Beatles Book by their "authorized" biographer Hunter Davies. The second is called The Beatles: The Band That Changed the World, by Terry Burrows. Both look like excellent reads!
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Wow. That's cool. Looks like new Beatle books will always be written--they will never be forgotten, that "unserious" band (Macca's words: "The Beatles were not a serious band.") which was started for fun and love of music. And they always wanted it to be fun. New biography is coming out about Lou Reed. Should be interesting.