Naked at the Albert Hall: The Inside Story of Singing

Thorn, Tracey

ISBN 10 : 0349005249 ISBN 13 : 9780349005249

Editeur : Virago, 2016

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Smart, chatty . . . [Thorn is] a sufficiently deft writer to negotiate the populist and the high-brow . . . a thought-provoking and enjoyable read (Mail on Sunday)

Honest and compassionate (Sunday Telegraph)

If you care at all about pop music you should read both [Naked at the Albert Hall and Bedsit Disco Queen] (Sunday Herald)

Revelatory, always entertaining . . . a genuine insider's perspective . . . Thirty years of consideration went into this quietly impressive volume, and it shows (Independent)

A writer in fine voice . . . [a] cracker of a book (Scotsman)

Thorn is the perfect analyst of our reverence for and terror of singing . . .Thorn's practical, warm tone gives her a Miss Marple-like ability to appear kindly while holding mistruths up to account . . . She is best, though, as a sympathetic guide to the singers she loves (Daily Telegraph)

Tracey's characterful phrasing is as persuasive on page as it is on record (Grazia)

Gem-like confessions that make it feel like a proper discussion. I loved it (Nina Stibbe Telegraph)

A thoughtful and sensitive study of singing and her very English struggle with the embarrassment (Telegraph)

A subtle, suggestive book about performance (Keith Miller Times Literary Supplement)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In her bestselling autobiography Bedsit Disco Queen, Tracey Thorn recalled the highs and lows of a thirty-year career in pop music. But with the touring, recording and extraordinary anecdotes, there wasn't time for an in-depth look at what she actually did for all those years: sing. She sang with warmth and emotional honesty, sometimes while battling acute stage-fright.

Part memoir, part wide-ranging exploration of the art, mechanics and spellbinding power of singing, NAKED AT THE ALBERT HALL takes in Dusty Springfield, Dennis Potter and George Eliot; Auto-tune, the microphone and stage presence; The Streets and The X Factor. Including interviews with fellow artists such as Alison Moyet, Romy Madley-Croft and Green Gartside of Scritti Politti, and portraits of singers in fiction as well as Tracey's real-life experiences, it offers a unique, witty and sharply observed insider's perspective on the exhilarating joy and occasional heartache of singing.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0349005249
• ISBN 13: 9780349005249
• Reliure: Livre broché
• Nombre de pages: 256