A Dysfunctional Success: The Wreckless Eric Manual - Couverture souple

Goulden, Eric

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3955752232 ISBN 13 : 9783955752231

Editeur : Ventil Verlag, 2024

Synopsis

In A Dysfunctional Success (Wreckless) Eric Goulden writes with an acute eye for detail about growing up in the 60s and 70s in suburban South East England, discovering music and girls; life as an art student in the frozen north eastern town of Hull; the formation and dissolution of bands with desperate equipment, a homemade ethos and not much idea; his move to London in 1976 and subsequent recording debut on the newly formed Stiff Record label.

“I didn’t actually want to write a music biography. There was a story to be told, but it wasn’t the tale of the meteoric rise and demise of Wreckless Eric. I was more concerned with my upbringing, the social background that shaped me and lead to this meteoric rise and demise. And I wanted to write about what happens after the firework fizzles out.”

This is an honest coming of age story from both sides of instant pop success: bands, squalid flats, menial jobs, making records, the rise to the point of fame and falling off into poverty and alcoholism in Thatcher's Britain, where Goulden ultimately survived the 1980’s to achieve his own kind of success.

Twenty-one years after its original publication, in a time when pop stars telling their own hard stories was a comparative rarity, A Dysfunctional Success rings truer than ever, reminding readers how we all come from somewhere, pay a high price for our dreams, and enjoy modest glories in return for staying the course.

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À propos de l?auteur

Eric Goulden has released albums in his many incarnations at a consistent rate since 1978. His latest album, 2023’s Leisureland resulted in an appearance on BBC2's Later with Jools Holland, a new session for Marc Riley and Gideon Coe on BBC 6 Music and a string of features (The Guardian, Uncut, Record Collector, Shindig...)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ventil Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3955752232
• ISBN 13: 9783955752231
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible