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S'està carregant… Lost in Music (1995)de Giles Smith, Giles Smith
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Nette Anekdoten und eine Zeitreise durch die Musik der 70er, 80er und 90er (vor allem der britischen) von einem, der selbst kurze drauf und dran war ein Popstar zu werden, schließlich aber beim Musikjournalismus gelandet ist. Rezension auf goodreads.com: Giles Smith is a fan of pop music, who, like many self-respecting fans had dreams of pop stardom. This book details his obsession with pop music and his brief flirtation with the music industry as a member of the Cleaners From Venus. The Cleaners operated at the arse-end of the music biz in the late 80's, managed by two young Scots chancers and briefly signed to RCA. In Germany. Smith recounts his trials and tribulations with the band, interspersed with anecdotes about his love of pop and the strange things it makes fans do. Smith is a good writer, indeed it's the career he chose after the Cleaners failed to make it, and the book is broken down into bite size chapters but somehow, for me the book is less than the sum of its parts. It's amusing in places but not laugh out loud funny. The best bits are the Cleaners' story and you wish he'd gone into more detail, made the book more about that. As it is the book falls into two camps: a story about a failed pop band, and a story about one man's relationship to pop music. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Lost in Music is about growing up with pop music - about hearing it, buying it, loving it, and attempting to play it in public for money. A brilliant combination of the confessional and the unapologetic, this is a book for anyone who has ever treasured vinyl, or sung into a roll-on deodorant in front of the bedroom mirror and dreamed of playing Wembley. 'A wonderfully funny pop-music memoir . . . You don't have to know who Nik Kershaw is to laugh out loud at the chapter about him' Spectator 'One of the best books about music that you will ever read . . . It is impossible to read Lost in Music without laughing out loud' Daily Telegraph No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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The Cleaners operated at the arse-end of the music biz in the late 80's, managed by two young Scots chancers and briefly signed to RCA. In Germany. Smith recounts his trials and tribulations with the band, interspersed with anecdotes about his love of pop and the strange things it makes fans do.
Smith is a good writer, indeed it's the career he chose after the Cleaners failed to make it, and the book is broken down into bite size chapters but somehow, for me the book is less than the sum of its parts. It's amusing in places but not laugh out loud funny. The best bits are the Cleaners' story and you wish he'd gone into more detail, made the book more about that. As it is the book falls into two camps: a story about a failed pop band, and a story about one man's relationship to pop music.
So, an amusing, undemanding read. One to dip into now and again. ( )