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Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom: Lessons from a Dissolute Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781800181892)
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xThe legendary music impresario (and producer of bands like The Yardbirds and Wham!) tells his life story in a series of mesmerizingly candid vignettes.Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom: Lessons from a Dissolute Life is the book Simon Napier-Bell's fans have always hoped he'd write.
From 1940s London where he listened to wartime hits like 'Mairzy doats and dozy doats' in the air-raid shelter; to talking about Wham! with Deng Xiaoping, head of Communist China, or getting stoned with Elaine May and Jack Lemmon by the pool in 60s Beverly Hills, Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom makes most memoirs look like thin gruel by comparison. This is a high-octane explosion of a book, a kaleidoscopic sequence of more than sixty 'lessons' drawn from a life lived to the full: frank, funny, freewheeling and honest.
There are anecdotes of the acts he managed (the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Marc Bolan, Japan, Sinitta, Boney M, Candi Staton, Ultravox, Asia, Wham!, George Michael and Sinead O'Connor) but there's also the wisdom gathered from a louche life of clubs, restaurants, gigs, arrests, awards, bankruptcies, bereavements, booze, coups and sex, both gay and straight.
Author: Simon Napier-Bell
ISBN-10: 1800181892
ISBN-13: 9781800181892
Publisher: Unbound
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2022
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.30d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2022 pg. 112
From 1940s London where he listened to wartime hits like 'Mairzy doats and dozy doats' in the air-raid shelter; to talking about Wham! with Deng Xiaoping, head of Communist China, or getting stoned with Elaine May and Jack Lemmon by the pool in 60s Beverly Hills, Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom makes most memoirs look like thin gruel by comparison. This is a high-octane explosion of a book, a kaleidoscopic sequence of more than sixty 'lessons' drawn from a life lived to the full: frank, funny, freewheeling and honest.
There are anecdotes of the acts he managed (the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Marc Bolan, Japan, Sinitta, Boney M, Candi Staton, Ultravox, Asia, Wham!, George Michael and Sinead O'Connor) but there's also the wisdom gathered from a louche life of clubs, restaurants, gigs, arrests, awards, bankruptcies, bereavements, booze, coups and sex, both gay and straight.
Author: Simon Napier-Bell
ISBN-10: 1800181892
ISBN-13: 9781800181892
Publisher: Unbound
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2022
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.30d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2022 pg. 112
By Simon Napier-Bell
xSimon Napier-Bell has been a film composer, songwriter, record producer, and author, but he is best known for having managed such artists as The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Japan and Wham! Under his management, Wham! became the first Western pop group ever to play in Communist China.
He is the author of four acclaimed books about the music industry: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Black Vinyl White Powder, I'm Coming to Take You to Lunch and The Business. He is CEO of the Pierbel Entertainment Group, and continues to consult, write and broadcast on the music industry.
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