A Cure For Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage - Couverture souple

Jackson, Joe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0306810018 ISBN 13 : 9780306810015

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2000

Synopsis

Since the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a famously private person, whose lack of interest in his own celebrity has been interpreted by some as aloofness. That reputation is shattered by A Cure for Gravity , Jackson's enormously funny and revealing memoir of growing up musical, from a culturally impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, through London's Punk and New Wave scenes, up to the brink of pop stardom. Jackson describes his life as a teenage Beethoven fanatic his early piano gigs for audiences of glass-throwing skinheads and his days on the road with long-forgotten club bands. Far from a standard-issue celebrity autobiography, A Cure for Gravity is a smart, passionate book about music, the creative process, and coming of age as an artist.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joe Jackson's internationally best-selling albums include Look Sharp, Night and Day, and Body and Soul. He has also composed music for film, video, and television. A graduate and now a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, he divides his time between New York City and Portsmouth, England.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0306810018
• ISBN 13: 9780306810015
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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