George Michael: A Life - Couverture rigide

Gavin, James

 
9781419747946: George Michael: A Life
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ISBN 10 : 1419747940 ISBN 13 : 9781419747946
Editeur : Abrams Press, 2022

Synopsis

An expansive look at the troubled life of legendary singer, songwriter, and producer George Michael?written by an acclaimed music biographerChristmas night of 2016 brought the jarring news that, in the morning hours, George Michael had died in bed of heart failure at the age of 53; his boyfriend had discovered the body. Suddenly he was all over the news after nearly three years of mostly silent reclusion. It’s said that he spent those years hidden away in his British mansion, bloated, chronically depressed, musically inactive, and high.Michael was an extravagantly gifted, open-hearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic; he was a songwriter of craft and substance. Prior to his death, however, the press had shown no sympathy for this self-sabotaging superstar. He lived a life of ultimate privilege, yet seemed so tortured by everything he had coveted that he could not face life sober. Fans stayed loyal, but the press was unforgiving, almost exclusively citing reports about his DUIs, his jail sentence for having crashed into a storefront, and his European tour that was canceled due to a near-fatal bout with pneumonia.Michael's story follows an arc that many who have raw talent and find fame come to know: He was a troubled, chemically dependent artist who poured his struggles into music of deep psychological complexity, musical sophistication, and soul. His mystique looms large over the work and is, in turn, not easily forgotten. George Michael: A Life explores the tragically predictable story of an utterly unpredictable artist?how he found and then lost himself in the music.

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À propos de l'auteur

James Gavin is a writer and music biographer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Time Out New York, and Vanity Fair. He is the author of Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee, and Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne. He lives in New York City.

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An expansive look at the troubled life of legendary singer, songwriter, and producer George Michael?written by an acclaimed music biographerChristmas night of 2016 brought the jarring news that, in the morning hours, George Michael had died in bed of heart failure at the age of 53; his boyfriend had discovered the body. Suddenly he was all over the news after nearly three years of mostly silent reclusion. It’s said that he spent those years hidden away in his British mansion, bloated, chronically depressed, musically inactive, and high.Michael was an extravagantly gifted, open-hearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic; he was a songwriter of craft and substance. Prior to his death, however, the press had shown no sympathy for this self-sabotaging superstar. He lived a life of ultimate privilege, yet seemed so tortured by everything he had coveted that he could not face life sober. Fans stayed loyal, but the press was unforgiving, almost exclusively citing reports about his DUIs, his jail sentence for having crashed into a storefront, and his European tour that was canceled due to a near-fatal bout with pneumonia.Michael's story follows an arc that many who have raw talent and find fame come to know: He was a troubled, chemically dependent artist who poured his struggles into music of deep psychological complexity, musical sophistication, and soul. His mystique looms large over the work and is, in turn, not easily forgotten. George Michael: A Life explores the tragically predictable story of an utterly unpredictable artist?how he found and then lost himself in the music.

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Éditeur
Abrams Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1419747940
ISBN 13 
9781419747946
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
528
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Buchpark GmbH
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