Crap Lyrics: A Celebration of the Very Worst Pop Lyrics of All Time . . . Ever! - Couverture souple

Sharp, Johnny

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1906032599 ISBN 13 : 9781906032593

Editeur : Portico, 2009

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Johnny Sharp is a London-based writer who writes regularly for The Guardian, Q, Mojo, and London Lite, and who was previously one of the NME's best known feature writers, working under his school nickname Johnny Cigarettes. He has also contributed to publications as diverse as The Daily Telegraph, Bizarre, loaded, FourFourTwo, Minx, Xerox photocopiers customer magazine, Viz, and Militant. At the NME Johnny was popular with readers, but not always with musicians. Liam Gallagher publically threatened to assault him for a critical review, then when told Johnny was well over six feet tall, announced that he would 'stand on a chair' and do it. The Verve's Richard Ashcroft had to be physically restrained from attacking him in the slightly surreal arena of Barcelona FC's Nou Camp stadium when Johnny bumped into him at the European Cup Final there in 1999. Other career highlights include unwisely swallowing a green substance offered by noted bon viveur Shaun Ryder and ending up spending several hours licking a radiator, and once taking part in a 'naked protest' at Glastonbury festival. He only disrobed for around 30 seconds, but the resulting picture was printed in NME and his mother had to buy up all the copies in her local newsagents to avoid bringing shame on the family. You may see him stooping to similar levels of indignity to promote this book.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A celebration of the very worst pop lyrics of all time ... ever! 'Why do I find it hard to write the next line?' Spandau Ballet once asked. Even the greatest songwriters (and Spandau Ballet) have had the odd bad day at the office. Or more likely, a bad few minutes in the studio toilets scribbling the first words they can think of on the back of their tranquiliser prescription shortly before the vocal has to be recorded. Johnny Sharp has trawled half a century of lyrics to find the funniest examples of crippled couplets, outrageous innuendo, mixed metaphors, shameless self-delusion, nefarious nonsense and flagrant filth. Not to mention unforgivable over-use of alliteration. Crap Lyrics is a humorous celebration (and occasionally, condemnation) of over 120 of the most ridiculous hooks, lines and stinkers from pop poetry through the modern ages. Johnny Sharp has spent 15 years as a music journalist, and several of those years writing for NME under the name Johnny Cigarettes, so he knows that ridicule is nothing to be scared of. He's serious as cancer when he asks: Are we human, or are we dancer? And where do we go from here? Is it down to the lake, I fear? While moving like a tortoise, full of rigor mortis? Whether you're a diplomat, or even down the Laundromat, if you have ever heard a song and thought 'You what?', this is the book for you.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Portico
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1906032599
• ISBN 13: 9781906032593
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192