Glastonbury Festival Tales - Couverture rigide

Shearlaw, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0091895995 ISBN 13 : 9780091895990

Editeur : Ebury Press, 2004

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Told in the words and photographs of the people who have contributed to, performed at, or simply turned up and enjoyed Britain's biggest music event, Glastonbury Festival Tales lifts the lid on what makes the festival such an extraordinary and enduring occasion.

Written by John Shearlaw and Crispin Aubrey, journalists and members of the Glastonbury press office with unrivalled access to the people who make the festival what it is, this definitive volume features a remarkable collection of voices from the festival's past and present: performers - David Bowie, Fatboy Slim, Moby, Chris Martin, the Chemical Brothers, Rolf Harris, Bill Bailey and the late John Peel - fans, welfare workers, music journalists, stage builders, the organisers Michael and Emily Eavis and even the legendary man who deals with Glastonbury's city of waste,.

Tracing its history from a small, local festival in 1970 to today's mammoth 'city in the fields', through the court cases, the riots, the fence-scalings and the shootings not to mention the music, the mud, the drugs and the celebration, Glastonbury Festival Tales is the book for everyone who has ever been or wanted to go to Glastonbury.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This is the remarkable story of how the Glastonbury Festival, that started as a party in a Somerset field in the 1970s, went on to become one of the world's most famous music festivals.

The tales are told in the words of everyone involved with the festival, from Michael and Emily Eavis and Arabella Churchill to Glastonbury village residents and local policemen. There is also a wealth of celebrity contributions: we hear from David Bowie, Normal Cook, Fran Healy, Chris Martin, Billy Bragg and John Peel, to name just a few.

It adds up to a fascinating slice of popular history, telling the full story of this much loved festival.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ebury Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0091895995
• ISBN 13: 9780091895990
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256