Passion is a Fashion: The Real Story of the "Clash" - Couverture souple

Gilbert, Pat

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845131134 ISBN 13 : 9781845131135

Editeur : Aurum Press, 2005

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The only internationally successful, million-selling group to emerge from the late seventies London punk scene, the Clash set out to change the world with a potent mix of politics, iconic imagery, and blazing rock ‘n' roll. It was an agenda mirrored in the Clash's music, which swiftly evolved from ferocious punk rock to incorporate reggae, ska, funk, jazz, soul, and hip-hop. Passion Is a Fashion draws on over 70 interviews with the key participants in the story—roadies, producers, friends, and fans—and conversations with the Clash: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, and Topper Headon. The first book to give real insight into what went on behind the scenes during the Clash's ten-year career, it charts the Clash's picaresque progress through the days of the early punk scene and their groundbreaking Rock Against Racism gigs, to the arduous touring, to their break out in America, and the making of the classic London Calling album, all the way to the band's eventual dissolution and the sudden, sad death of frontman Joe Strummer. Gritty, compelling, and above all authoritative, Passion Is a Fashion is the biography the Clash has long deserved.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This title is written by a former editor of "Mojo" magazine. It features extensive interviews with band members, entourage, road crew, promoters and management. Pat Gilbert's definitive biography of the Clash - universally acclaimed as a great book - has already sold over 20,000 copies in paperback. Now, for the 30th anniversary of the band's classic "London Calling" album, it is reissued with a stunning new cover. For the book Pat Gilbert - a former "Mojo" editor with the highest credentials - talked to everyone, in over 70 interviews with the key participants - roadies, producers, friends and fans - and above all the band members themselves, including Joe Strummer before his death, to be able to give the first real insight into what went on behind the scenes during the Clash's ten-year career. This book is filled with the surge in interest generated by the Shea Stadium live CD. It is critically acclaimed as the definitive book on the band.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Aurum Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1845131134
• ISBN 13: 9781845131135
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416