Comfortably Numb: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd - Couverture souple

Blake, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0306817527 ISBN 13 : 9780306817526

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2008

Synopsis

416 pages, 16pp colour plates

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

New York Press, 1/20/09
“You really do feel as if you’re being sucked into the drama. That’s a testament to Blake doing his job...It’s a journalistic take on the band, and its reads like a history book. It’s respectful and revealing, but not in a scandalous way.”

Blurt Magazine, 2/09
“Mark Blake has clearly done his share of research...Blake is at his best [when] providing those details that leap off the page while placing Pink Floyd squarely in the context of the times.”

"Comfortably Numb is a hell of a read."―Skyscraper Magazine

"Arguably the best book that has ever been written about 'the Floyd.'"
―Oak Park Press

"Comfortably Numb is both an enjoyable read for rock historians and a Pink Floyd trivia geek."
―Aquarian Weekly

"Chances are you probably won't see another Pink Floyd book on the shelves anytime soon because this one gets it right."―Kirkus

"Mark Blake peels back the layers of mystery around the band's history with a supple, readable biography, replacing much hearsay and apocrypha with details and facts conveyed with the skepticism of a journalist and the passion of a fan...the definitive read on Pink Floyd."―PopMatters

"Impeccable...The most complete, insightful, and current account of Pink Floyd to date, Comfortably Numb is nearly as essential as the music itself."―Austin Chronicle

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Mark Blake's history of Pink Floyd - the first for fifteen years - has already been acknowledged as the final word on this remarkable band's life. Lucidly written, incorporating over a hundred new and exclusive interviews, it covers Pink Floyd from their Cambridge beginnings in the early sixties to their triumphant reformation at Live 8 in 2005, 24 years after their last live performance together and the death of their troubled founder-member Syd Barrett a year later.Pink Floyd's albums like Dark Side of the Moon remain some of rock's biggest sellers of all every year on CD; Both David Gilmour and Roger Waters continue to do arena and stadium gigs, and the market for this book will exist for many years.In hardback it has reprinted four times already. Aurum's earlier book about the Clash by Blake's Mojo stablemate Pat Gilbert, "Passion is a Fashion", has so far sold over 22,000 in paperback - and the Floyd cult is far larger.Everyone has commented on the superb "flying pig" cover art and the spine treatment visible right across the bookshop: both are retained for this paperback edition.It is acknowledged as the definitive biography of one of rock's biggest bands. It features a stunning cover and spine treatment.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0306817527
• ISBN 13: 9780306817526
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 418