The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography - Couverture souple

Carlin, Peter Ames

 
9780593312537: The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0593312538 ISBN 13 : 9780593312537
Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2025

Synopsis

In the spring of 1980, an unexpected group of musical eccentrics came together to play their very first performance at a college party in Athens, Georgia. Within a few short years, they had taken over the world – with smash records like Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Monster and Green. Raw, outrageous, and expressive, R.E.M.’s distinctive musical flair was unmatched, and a string of mega-successes solidified them as generational spokesmen. In the tumultuous transition between the wide-open 80s and the anxiety of the early 90s, R.E.M. challenged the corporate and social order, chasing a vision and cultivating a magnetic, transgressive sound.

In this rich, intimate biography, critically acclaimed author Peter Ames Carlin looks beyond the sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll to open a window into the fascinating lives of four college friends – Michael Stipe, Peter Buck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry – who stuck together at any cost, until the end. Deeply descriptive and remarkably poetic, steeped in 80s and 90s nostalgia, The Name of This Band is R.E.M. paints a cultural history of the commercial peak and near-total collapse of a great music era, and the story of the generation that came of age at the apotheosis of rock.

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À propos de l?auteur

Peter Ames Carlin is the author of several books, including Sonic Boom: The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros. Records, published in 2021, and Bruce, the biography of Bruce Springsteen published in 2012. Carlin has also been a freelance journalist, a senior writer at People in New York City, and a television columnist and feature writer at The Oregonian in Portland. A regular speaker on music, writing, and popular culture, Carlin lives in Seattle.

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Éditeur
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0593312538
ISBN 13 
9780593312537
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
481
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780385546942: The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0385546947 ISBN 13 :  9780385546942
Editeur : Doubleday, 2024
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