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Chargement... Moon: The Life and Death of a Rock Legend (1999)par Tony Fletcher
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Well-written, informative and interesting music biography, more information-rich and insightful than others I can recall reading so far (to Jan 2024). Good coverage of the music, band and public/private life. The running theme is Moon's status among the 'in crowd', but a slight irritation is that it is always flagged up by using the word "élite" prefaced by 'social', 'cultural', 'jazz', 'wealthy', 'rock', 'touring' or 'music', usually with the accent, which appears in the text some 28 times. The last chapter and epilogue also seemed tortuously long and drowned in minutiae. ( ) I'm not a Who fan although I find myself appreciating their earlier work more and more over time. After seeing The Kids Are Alright at the Brooklyn Academic of Music's recent film series on The Who, I found myself interested in learning more about Keith Moon's intense and strange life. This book is written by a British journalist who used to live in Park Slope. It is extremely detailed and it took me very long to read the book cover-to-cover but the details are never boring. The author doesn't overindulge the rock star pathology thread of Moon's life but doesn't focus exclusively on the music either. The book is nice blend of British rock history, celebrity gossip (who ever knew Larry Hagman was friends with Moon?) and often entertaining tales of excess. Moon was a genuinely funny person. Although he often used cruel humor (as well as violence to many a hotel room) to stave off the boredom that was an outgrowth of his extreme hyperactivity and attention deficit, Moon was a kind and an almost childlike innocent (whilst also being quite cruel to his wife and subsequent girlfriend). aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Back in print, Moon is the brilliant and heralded biography of one of rock & roll's most notorious and beloved figures: The Who's legendary drummer Keith Moon. Moon was the bad boy of rock & roll, the most manic member of an aggressive and fabulously successful band, a full-throttle hedonist who lived at the center of an unending party. He was also a musical genius who inspired whole generations of artists, a generous friend to nearly everyone who crossed his path, a guileless man of immense personal charm to whom the sweetest sound on earth was surf music. A generation after his death, Moon is still revered as the greatest drummer in rock history and the single wildest personality in an age of pop excess. Here is the truth behind the legend, the result of years of research in which music journalist Tony Fletcher interviewed dozens of Moon's friends, colleagues, and associates. An instant classic that brilliantly illuminates both the tender and self-destructive sides of this singular personality, Moon is the story of one of the most outrageous rock stars ever born. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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