"Bonkers": The Dizzee Rascal Story - Couverture souple

Lester, Paul

 
9781849384063: "Bonkers": The Dizzee Rascal Story
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1849384061 ISBN 13 : 9781849384063
Editeur : Omnibus Press, 2010

Synopsis

In "Bonkers", Paul Lester traces Dizzee's development as the East London rapper, songwriter and record producer, of Ghanaian and Nigerian descent, forged a career, first as a pirate radio DJ aged 16, then as a member of grime collective the Roll Deep Crew, and finally as a solo artist. It also reveals how Dizzee's distinctive style - a hybrid of garage, rap, grime, ragga, dancehall and electronica - and skewed observations of low-rent city life helped him become, at 19, the youngest person ever to win the prestigious Mercury Music Prize in 2003 with his extraordinary debut album "Boy In Da Corner". In this no-holds-barred account, read about Dizzee's stabbing in "Ayia Napa", his gradual infiltration of the mainstream: rapping on Band Aid 20's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in 2004, his three Number 1 singles with "Dance Wiv Me", "Bonkers" and "Holiday", and unlikely appearance on BBC2's Newsnight where he was grilled about politics by Jeremy Paxman and joked that he could one day be Prime Minister. Stranger things have happened - and they're all in "Bonkers: The Story Of Dizzee Rascal".

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À propos de l?auteur

Paul Lester was Features Editor of Melody Maker before leaving to start music and movie magazine Uncut where he was deputy editor until 2006. Since 2007, he has interviewed nearly 100 musicians and actors for the Guardian, Guardian Unlimited Music, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times and sleevenotes on everyone from Elkie Brooks to The Sex Pistols. He has written nine rock and pop biographies and has co-authored the Virgin Encyclopedia of Rock.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

In "Bonkers", Paul Lester traces Dizzee's development as the East London rapper, songwriter and record producer, of Ghanaian and Nigerian descent, forged a career, first as a pirate radio DJ aged 16, then as a member of grime collective the Roll Deep Crew, and finally as a solo artist. It also reveals how Dizzee's distinctive style - a hybrid of garage, rap, grime, ragga, dancehall and electronica - and skewed observations of low-rent city life helped him become, at 19, the youngest person ever to win the prestigious Mercury Music Prize in 2003 with his extraordinary debut album "Boy In Da Corner". In this no-holds-barred account, read about Dizzee's stabbing in "Ayia Napa", his gradual infiltration of the mainstream: rapping on Band Aid 20's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in 2004, his three Number 1 singles with "Dance Wiv Me", "Bonkers" and "Holiday", and unlikely appearance on BBC2's Newsnight where he was grilled about politics by Jeremy Paxman and joked that he could one day be Prime Minister. Stranger things have happened - and they're all in "Bonkers: The Story Of Dizzee Rascal".

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Éditeur
Omnibus Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1849384061
ISBN 13 
9781849384063
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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