New Music Books Out On...
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David Bowie (big thick one), John and Yoko, Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley, The Smiths (another big thick tome), Nancy and Ann Wilson and more
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I heard that Heart's autobio is a juicy tell-all.
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Greg Allman had one there, too
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Reading a book on Heath Ledger. He was into Nick Drake music and wanted to play him in a film. Nick Drake was an English singer songwriter who passed away at age 26, ironically, of a pill overdose--which happened to Heath Ledger. Ledger's was supposedly accidental, while Drake's might not have been.
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This just came out, everyone should get it http://www.amazon.com/dp/0199756570
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the book that features both Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley is in large part about Cohen's famous song, "Hallelujah." I never was all that crazy about that song, for some reason.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
the book that features both Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley is in large part about Cohen's famous song, "Hallelujah." I never was all that crazy about that song, for some reason.
On a side note, Jeff Buckley's father, Tim, was one of Linda's lovers before Paul. There is a photograph of him in one of her books.
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Thanks, Nancy. I'm reading a bio on Janis Joplin, also one on Sam Cooke. I've read several on Janis and am hoping this is a different one not read before. I think it is.
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I'm reading "The Life" by Keith Richards and a biography on Elvis Presley, on the last part of his life and career.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
I'm reading "The Life" by Keith Richards and a biography on Elvis Presley, on the last part of his life and career.
I hear "The Life" is great--I want to read it.
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Nancy R:
SusyLuvsPaul:
I'm reading "The Life" by Keith Richards and a biography on Elvis Presley, on the last part of his life and career.
I hear "The Life" is great--I want to read it.
FWIW, the title of Keith's book is just "Life" ... and it is an excellent read. *Highly* entertaining. I've mostly read music bios and autobiographies over the last few years - "Life" being the best (along with "Just Kids" by Patti Smith) and Pete Townshend's among the most disappointing. Am wading through "The Mammoth Book of The Rolling Stones" right now and have books from Lemmy, Bobby Keys and Marianne Faithfull on tap.
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Linda Ronstadt has a new autobiography, "Simple Dreams." She has revealed she can't sing anymore, she's lost her singing ability because she has "Parkinson's disease" and that's one of her symptoms
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Morrisey's new autobiography will be published in the U.K. in just a few weeks. The former Smith's star's book is from Penguin, a highly respected prestigious publishing house, but it will not come out in the U.S. A book on The Smiths appeared recently.
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Graham Nash's "Wild Tales"--its title designed to make you want to read it, LOL. Wonder what he'll have to say about Joni Mitchell.
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"The Murder of a Rolling Stone: Brian Jones. Who Killed Christopher Robin?" new book. Actually it's a new revised edition of the formerly published book, I found out. Updated with new info. Makes you wonder...
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Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys has a new autobiography. He blames Paris Hilton for some of his drug use woes, in it. She said today it wasn't her fault, it was his stardom and what comes with it. It's really sad that some members of his family accused him of causing his sister's drug overdose death. Nick was all torn up over that, was on Dr. Phil agonizing.
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A memoir by Bob Dylan's 1960s tour manager, Victor Maymudes, will come out in 2014 based on taped recollections he recorded before his death. His son Jacob will write the book, which will include memories of life on the road with Dylan, Dylan's first meeting with the Beatles, and his romances with Joan Baez and others. Pattie Boyd's sister Jenny Boyd's second book "It's Not Only Rock n' Roll: Iconic Musicians Reveal the Source of Their Creativity" is out now. Sounds interesting.
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Robbie Robertson new book "Legends, Icons and Rebels"--to give young people a "foundation" in music, he said, to know the "originators" and get acquainted with their music. Showed Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Bob Dylan (the Beatles, Elvis and Chuck Berry are in there too, to be sure), he said 27 are in there, he had to leave out a lot of them and plans a part two.
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Belinda Carlisle has come out with a book of memoirs detailing her secret drug addiction, which she finally overcame in 2005. It's called "My Lips are Unsealed" (LOL) or something like that. Ace Frehely, former Kiss guitarist, will soon have his book published, about his life of "sex, drugs, and rock n' roll." It'll be a "Kiss and tell."
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Lisa Robinson, long-time rock journalist, has a new book coming out in April. She's interviewed everyone, knows everyone. She wrote the cover story on Jay-Z in the new Vanity Fair mag. I recall seeing all those pix of black haired Lisa in the defunct "Rock Scene" mag, with the New York Dolls, Lou Reed, Wayne County, the platinum-haired Cyrinda Fox, the girlfriend of New York Dolls lead singer (she later over dosed)-- all the glam rockers of the New York scene whom I considered rather delightfully depraved and wanted to run away and be part of the scene, hang out with Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick (she might have already o.d.'d, though). Ironic, as I now find drug depravity the opposite of alluring. Too dangerous and destructive, although one can still see how it could be an irresistible draw at times given how life can be, if you've the financial means. But it's best to go easy on the body and brain, to pass up cheap thrills if you want to last and thrive. Am writing this because of Katie Couric's talk show yesterday-- it showed the devastated parents of a young girl who died taking "Molly" at a rave dance and showed pictures of other youths who took this and perished, in a horrible way.
