Barry Gray (1)
Autor/a de My night people
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Obres de Barry Gray
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- male
Membres
Ressenyes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 1
- Membres
- 7
- Popularitat
- #1,123,407
- Valoració
- 3.0
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 7
those pet peeves stated (and which are part of my response to this fascinating and focused memoir) ... this is a breezy and specific (in some details .. the type of chair that burned in a cafe fire, for example) and at the same time oblique work ..
think of a series of linked cocktail party stories that have been pretty well honed over time. "and then there was the time that X came in to the studio" .. that kind of thing.
this read for THIS detail obsessed memoir lover was a wash of journal-y syntheses, occasionally augmented (and in this case book ended, usefully, providing a dramatic structure) by specifics related to a long term professional and personal vendetta .. between Barry Gray and a number of prominent persons whose feathers were variously ruffled by Gray himself or guests on his various radio programs. A bit of a name dropping adventure, but fun all the same and a glimpse into a night life and live radio world of the 1950s, 1960s that no longer exists.… (més)