Gavin Edwards (1)
Auteur de The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing
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A propos de l'auteur
Gavin Edwards was born in New York. He is an author, journalist and contributing editor for Rolling Stone. His work includes River Phoenix and Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind. His latest bestselling book, written with and aboutTravis Barker, is Can I afficher plus Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums (2015). afficher moins
Œuvres de Gavin Edwards
The Tao of Bill Murray: Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing (2014) 190 exemplaires
Is Tiny Dancer Really Elton's Little John?: Music's Most Enduring Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed (2006) 62 exemplaires
The World According to Tom Hanks: The Life, the Obsessions, the Good Deeds of America's Most Decent Guy (2018) 37 exemplaires
Fourteen Ways To Commit Suicide 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 20th century
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, USA
- Professions
- contributing editor, Rolling Stone
"free-lance know-it-all"
Membres
Critiques
Last night at the Viper Room : River Phoenix and… par Gavin Edwards
Eminently readable with engaging prose. One of my "best of" picks for 2013.
A beautiful biography of one of the top five influential people in my life.
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
This book is a collection of misheard song lyrics -- lines people wrongly think they have heard in English- language rock, pop, and folk songs of the 1960s through 1990s.
For example, consider the line in Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind", when he apparently sings: The ants are my friends, they're blowin' in the wind..., and as reflected in the book's title, when Jimi Hendrix sings 'scuse me while i kiss this guy ("kiss the sky")
Likewise, in "White Rabbit" (Jefferson Airplane), Grace Slick's soaring vocals remind us Remember, what the doorknob said... while Paul Simon complains that he . "gets no offers... just a come-on from the horse on 7th Avenue...".
As another example, Creedence Clearwater's "Bad Moon Rising", asserts there's... a bathroom on the right , while "Down on the Corner" advises You don't need a pinhead, just to hang around .
Some wrong lyrics are sung by people who know they are wrong, but who find amusement in what they sound like. For example, when Kenny Rogers sings "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille", who can resist singing along With four hundred children and a crop in the field... Likewise, there's the Beatles' Will you still feed me, when I'm six feet four... and their famous phrase about Lucy: the girl with colitis goes by...
As yet another example: to most English speakers, the refrain "Guantanamera" sounds just like One ton Tomato...; and if you've not heard it that way before, you'll never be able to sing the song correctly again. As another culinary offering, there's the Eurythmics Sweet dreams are made of cheese... Or in a social venue, in a gathering that's cheering on a jolly good fellow, you can amuse yourself by singing He's a delicate fellow...
With 275 misheard lyrics included, there are plenty to choose from. An especially amusing aspect is that most of the misheard lyrics are accompanied by clever, hand-drawn cartoons that illustrate the misinterpretation.
I cheerfully grant that this book is rather puerile, but I found it quite amusing. My copy now has plenty of turned-down corners to mark my favorites.… (plus d'informations)
For example, consider the line in Bob Dylan's "Blowing in the Wind", when he apparently sings: The ants are my friends, they're blowin' in the wind..., and as reflected in the book's title, when Jimi Hendrix sings 'scuse me while i kiss this guy ("kiss the sky")
Likewise, in "White Rabbit" (Jefferson Airplane), Grace Slick's soaring vocals remind us Remember, what the doorknob said... while Paul Simon complains that he . "gets no offers... just a come-on from the horse on 7th Avenue...".
As another example, Creedence Clearwater's "Bad Moon Rising", asserts there's... a bathroom on the right , while "Down on the Corner" advises You don't need a pinhead, just to hang around .
Some wrong lyrics are sung by people who know they are wrong, but who find amusement in what they sound like. For example, when Kenny Rogers sings "You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille", who can resist singing along With four hundred children and a crop in the field... Likewise, there's the Beatles' Will you still feed me, when I'm six feet four... and their famous phrase about Lucy: the girl with colitis goes by...
As yet another example: to most English speakers, the refrain "Guantanamera" sounds just like One ton Tomato...; and if you've not heard it that way before, you'll never be able to sing the song correctly again. As another culinary offering, there's the Eurythmics Sweet dreams are made of cheese... Or in a social venue, in a gathering that's cheering on a jolly good fellow, you can amuse yourself by singing He's a delicate fellow...
With 275 misheard lyrics included, there are plenty to choose from. An especially amusing aspect is that most of the misheard lyrics are accompanied by clever, hand-drawn cartoons that illustrate the misinterpretation.
I cheerfully grant that this book is rather puerile, but I found it quite amusing. My copy now has plenty of turned-down corners to mark my favorites.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 890
- Popularité
- #28,791
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 34
- ISBN
- 50
- Langues
- 3
