Memory songs : a personal journey into the music that shaped the '90s
Cook, James2018
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This is a story about how a music-obsessed boy went from his bedroom in Hitchin to the heart of nineties London as Britpop was about to explode. We follow James Cook from his early encounters with pop's pioneers - Revolver heard for the first time, Led Zeppelin glimpsed on evening TV - through an adolescence where taste is everything, and friendships are forged on a mutual love for the Velvet Underground, to the high-stakes gamble of moving to London, signing a record deal and releasing an acclaimed debut album with cult indie act Flamingoes. Drawing on elements of both criticism and literary memoir, with a timeline that spans the assassination of John Lennon in 1980 and Kurt Cobain's suicide in 1994, 'Memory Songs' is a testament to music's power over the imagination.
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Imprint:
London : Unbound, 2018.London : Unbound, 2018.
Collation:
xvii, 284 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781783525218 (hbk)
Dewey class:
782.42163
Language:
English
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BRN:
1924586