Voodoo Billy wrote:"Jennifer Otter Bickerdike is a media and music academic" Mon dieu, sounds a bit pretentious to moi.
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Voodoo Billy wrote:"Jennifer Otter Bickerdike is a media and music academic" Mon dieu, sounds a bit pretentious to moi.
neil_jung wrote:
in my opinion, not worth reading unless you are interested in a boring recitation of music listened to and conversations along the lines of...
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Mr. Brian wrote:neil_jung wrote:
in my opinion, not worth reading unless you are interested in a boring recitation of music listened to and conversations along the lines of...
alright, lad
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I disagree. I like learning about the origin of things, so I like reading history. I'm only into the first few chapters of Will's childhood and his recollections of those dismal yet carefree post-WWII Britain days. I had no idea that he grew up so poor with an absentee father in such a class-based system. When the father was around it was total physical and psychological fear. I can practically smell the musty piss-stained clothes when I read the stories. Then the parents who showed no emotion toward the kids or each other. This had to have shaped his personality and approach to life and I am enjoying the insight.
I found some of it dryly and darkly humorous, such as the story of the kid who murdered his parents with a hammer and stole their credit cards in 2004 in the house across from his school. His remark was that this would never have happened when he was growing up. They didn't know what a credit card was.
neil_jung wrote:i read my library's copy. you can tell why mac was the singer, the book lacks personality and charisma. the few highlights were seeing joy division for the first time, meeting mac (macul) in his transparent plastic sandals, the first gig, how they got the name (julian cope introduced them as thus by choosing the least ridiculous name from a list he'd been given). the book ends with them being told they need a drummer to sign for a label (after Zoo, that is)
in my opinion, not worth reading unless you are interested in a boring recitation of music listened to and conversations along the lines of...
Mr. Brian wrote: I'm only into the first few chapters of Will's childhood and his recollections of those dismal yet carefree post-WWII Britain days. I had no idea that he grew up so poor with an absentee father in such a class-based system. When the father was around it was total physical and psychological fear. I can practically smell the musty piss-stained clothes when I read the stories. Then the parents who showed no emotion toward the kids or each other. This had to have shaped his personality and approach to life and I am enjoying the insight.
fat cherry wrote:
wide of the mark I'd say - but each to his own. I've said before the danger is that all the preamble can be dead dull - I've read morrissey's book, costellos and loads of other and you're thinking, gawd, get on with it. But this was quite good.?
neil_jung wrote:you were expecting morrissey to be interesting?! there's a chasm (or is that chasm?) between the word interesting and him!
[/quote]i guess it depends what you are comparing it to. the last biography i read was one of fermi the physicist, one of the leads of the manhatten project, and he was a singular man, living in a timer when italy slowly went over to fascism, fleeing to the US, working on the bomb etc., and he was fascinating and the other people (the likes of einstien, bohr et al) were very interesting people in a time when the world was in geat flux, or walter issacsons' bio of da vinci, so poor he had to teach himself to read etc.
fat cherry wrote: Townshend is whiney.......
fat cherry wrote:
But was that written by a professional writer - and not a guitar player? :-)
If you're into the sciencey stuff theres a book called 'Cathedrals of Science' by Patrick Coffey
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