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S'està carregant… Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green (2017)de Jimmy McDonough
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Al Green has blessed listeners with some of the biggest hits of the past fifty years. "Love and Happiness," "I'm Still in Love with You," "Let's Get Married," and "I'm Tired of Being Alone" are but a sampling of the iconic songs that led a generation to embrace love in perhaps the most tumultuous period in this country's history, an unparalleled body of work that has many calling Green one of the greatest soul singers of all time. The music legend has sold over 20 million albums and been sampled by numerous rappers, and even President Obama has been known to sing a chorus or two. The now-Bishop Green is without a doubt one of the most beloved yet inscrutable figures ever to grace the popular music stage, and he has managed to magically sidestep being successfully scrutinized in print. Until now.Acclaimed journalist and author Jimmy McDonough expertly tackles this most elusive of subjects and aims to present readers with the definitive portrait of a man everyone knows but few understand. McDonough manages to break through Green's joyous veneer to reveal the contrary, tortured, and solitary individual beneath, a man who spent decades dancing an uneasy tightrope between the sacred and the profane. From his childhood in the backwaters of Arkansas to commanding the stage in front of throngs of lusting fans to addressing a very different audience from the pulpit of his own church, readers will bear witness to the creation of some of the most electrifying soul music ever recorded; learn the hitherto untold real story behind Green's colorful down-home Memphis label, Hi Records; and--by way of countless in-depth interviews with major players in the story, some speaking for the very first time--unravel one of the last great mysteries in popular music: Al Green. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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I didn’t know that he had a major spiritual experience at Disneyland while he scheduled to perform there. I had never heard of this before.
Green's parents were sharecroppers.
Green is now a bishop in his Christian denomination. The church is in Memphis. He also a member of the Freemasons in some manner.
He has been married multiple times.
McDonough has some strange things to say about some of Green’s most popular work. Obviously, McDonough has his preference for Green’s Soul (music was formerly categorized in record stores under Classical, R&B, Rock, Folk) and some of the Gospel albums. But McDonough seems unappreciative of Green’s other work which has kept him in the public eye for so long. McDonough rightly notes that Green was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. But McDonough overplays his estimation of Green by panning his duet with Annie Lennox (Put A Little Love In Your Heart). He says that Put A Little Love In Your Heart is, “manufactured fluff to fill the soundtrack of the Bill Murray vehicle Scrooged…the results are inoffensive and instantly forgettable.” First of all Lennox also has a theme of (disjointed) Love in her work similar to Green which is why Dave Stewart wanted to try the Eurythmics collaboration in the first place. Lennox has a sold plenty of records herself as a solo artist and with the Eurythmics and has become a female icon for her recent humanitarian work. The music video to the song is properly ethereal to maybe being one of her more memorable video appearances. The film Scrooged is now considered a holiday classic.
McDonough also calls Green’s Message Of Love, “an inoffensive piece of catchy, post-“We Are The World” fluff.” This wasn’t a big hit here in America but a YouTube live version of the song is one of the best expressions of Green with total vocal command I’ve ever seen. These two songs are my favorite Green songs that he has put out in the last 20 years.
This is book worth reading even though he has no personal interviews with Green. B&W Pictures, Index, Discography, Bibliography. (