Different Every Time: The Authorized Biography of Robert Wyatt (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781593766160)

Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. He brought a jazz mindset to the 1960's rock scene, having honed his drumming skills in a shed at the end of Robert Graves' garden in Mallorica, Spain.

Wyatt's life took an abrupt turn in 1973, when he fell from a fourth-floor window at a party and was paralyzed from the waist down. He reinvented himself as a singer and composer with the extraordinary album Rock Bottom, which he followed with an idiosyncratic string of records that uniquely combine the personal and political.

Along the way, Robert has worked with the likes of Brian Eno, Bjork, Jerry Dammers, Charlie Haden, David Gilmour, Paul Weller and Hot Chip. Marcus O'Dair has talked to all of them--indeed anyone who has shaped, or been shaped by Wyatt over five decades. Different Every Time is the first biography of Robert Wyatt, and it was written with his full participation. It includes illustrations by Alfreda Benge and photographs from Robert's personal archive.

Author: Marcus O'Dair
ISBN-10: 1593766165
ISBN-13: 9781593766160
Publisher: Soft Skull
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2015
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2015