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Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781643752532)
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xA Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021 "Thompson is a master showman . . . [Beeswing is] everything you'd hope a Richard Thompson autobiography would be . . . It's both major and minor, dirge and ditty, light on its feet but packing a punch."
--The Wall Street Journal Now Featuring an Interview with Elvis Costello In this moving, immersive, and long-awaited memoir, beloved international music legend Richard Thompson recreates the spirit of his early years, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way again. Considered one of the top twenty guitarists of all time, Thompson also belongs in the songwriting pantheon alongside Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Randy Newman. Here the British folk musician takes us back to the late 1960s, a period of great change and creativity for both him and the world at large. During the pivotal years of 1967 to 1975, just as he was discovering his passion for music, he formed the band Fairport Convention with some schoolmates and helped establish the genre of British folk rock. It was a thrilling period of massive tours, where Thompson was on the road in both the UK and the US, crossing paths with the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Jimi Hendrix, as well as a time of heady and explosive creativity for Thompson, who wrote some of his most famous songs during this time. But as Thompson reveals, those eight years were also marked by upheaval and tragedy. Honest, moving, and compelling, Beeswing vividly captures the life of a remarkable man and musician during a period of artistic intensity, in a world on the cusp of change. "An absorbing, witty, often deliciously biting read, as all rock memoirs should be." --Los Angeles Review of Books
Author: Richard Thompson
ISBN-10: 1643752537
ISBN-13: 9781643752532
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 04/01/2022
--The Wall Street Journal Now Featuring an Interview with Elvis Costello In this moving, immersive, and long-awaited memoir, beloved international music legend Richard Thompson recreates the spirit of his early years, where he found, and then lost, and then found his way again. Considered one of the top twenty guitarists of all time, Thompson also belongs in the songwriting pantheon alongside Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Randy Newman. Here the British folk musician takes us back to the late 1960s, a period of great change and creativity for both him and the world at large. During the pivotal years of 1967 to 1975, just as he was discovering his passion for music, he formed the band Fairport Convention with some schoolmates and helped establish the genre of British folk rock. It was a thrilling period of massive tours, where Thompson was on the road in both the UK and the US, crossing paths with the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Jimi Hendrix, as well as a time of heady and explosive creativity for Thompson, who wrote some of his most famous songs during this time. But as Thompson reveals, those eight years were also marked by upheaval and tragedy. Honest, moving, and compelling, Beeswing vividly captures the life of a remarkable man and musician during a period of artistic intensity, in a world on the cusp of change. "An absorbing, witty, often deliciously biting read, as all rock memoirs should be." --Los Angeles Review of Books
Author: Richard Thompson
ISBN-10: 1643752537
ISBN-13: 9781643752532
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2022
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
Review Citation(s):
Shelf Awareness 04/01/2022
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