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Pass the sick bag
It is almost worthy of Spinal Tap - Nick Cave's thoughts written down on sick bags. Barney Hoskyns notes that there is honesty as well as narcissism and the odd flash of brilliance in \"The Sick Bag Song\", a book that was inspired by the musician's North American tour in 2014. Cave jotted down fleeting pensees on sick bags whilst flying between cities in Canada and the USA, fleshing them out later to create a hybrid work that is part tour diary and part free-ranging rumination on the business of performance. qot
Journal Article
Joni : the anthology
\"From album reviews, incisive commentary, and candid conversations, Joni: The Anthology includes, among other things, a review of Mitchell's first-ever show at LA's Troubadour in June of 1968, a 1978 interview by musician Ben Sidran on jazz great Charles Mingus, a personal reminiscence by Ellen Sander, a confidant of the Los Angeles singer-songwriter community, and a long \"director's cut\" version of editor Barney Hoskyns' 1994 MOJO interview. A time capsule of an icon, the anthology spans the entirety of Joni's career between 1967-2007, as well as thoughtful commentary on her early years\"--Amazon.com.
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Glenn Frey (1948-2016)
TO HEAR LONGTIME EAGLES MANAGER IRVING Azoff tell it, Glenn Frey, who died at age 67 on Jan. 18 of complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia, was the \"quarterback\" of the most successful American rock band of all time. [...]why did Frey and Henley succeed where their stylistic forebears (Poco, Gram Parsons) did not? Because it never occurred to those acts that West Coast country rock could be fortified and marketed to Middle America as efficiently as any boy band, and because Frey and Henley knew that pop success depended on what they termed \"song power\" - that the top 40 devil was in the micro-details of their smartly crafted compositions.
Trade Publication Article
Small town talk : Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & friends in the wild years of Woodstock
The town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the 1969 concert, is over 60 miles from the actual site. And Woodstock was a key location in the rock landscape even before Bob Dylan holed up there after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident. Hoskyns re-creates Woodstock's community of brilliant dysfunctional musicians, scheming dealers, and opportunistic hippie capitalists drawn to the area by Dylan and his sidekicks from the Band.
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Looking at the devil
Traces the career of Sly Stone, whose real name is Sylvester Stewart. The focus is on the period around 1971, when he was working on the music that would eventually become his fifth album. After that album he disappeared until his surprise appearance at the 2006 Grammy awards at which he, now in his early 60s, gave a faltering performance.
Journal Article
Genius in short
Interviews Prince and runs through his musical career. He is about to release a new album, entitled \"3121\", which is pitched at a mainstream audience.
Journal Article
The lost child
Judee Sill could have been the most famous singer-songwriter of the 1970s. Instead, when she died in November 1979 she was completely removed from the music map. The article traces her downfall.
Journal Article
Dark side of hedonism: a rock journalist's battle with drug addiction
The notion that I deserved to be happy simply because I was alive never occurred to me Perhaps I had some sixth sense of what heroin would do for me: of how, temporarily, it would fill me and complete me and make nothing else matter very much. From the outside, it all looked respectable: the middle-class family, the businessman dad, the prep and public schools. Fate steered me into music journalism, a way of not really growing up while earning a modest crust supplemented by selling review copies of albums. Depending on how you viewed it, the high or low point of this journalistic niche was the day Johnny Thunders dropped by the Paddington crash-pad I shared with, among others, Birthday Party singer Nick Cave. Somehow I managed to bang out enough NME articles to keep cash rolling in, even after Nick Kent -- the paper's most infamous dope fiend -- rightly lambasted my \"half-baked eulogies to self-destruction\". At that grim point, marooned in Los Angeles in the summer of 1983, I was desperate enough to accept the offer of help -- to plug into something bigger than me. Most abstinent addicts will tell you they replace drugs with surrogate compulsions: sex, food, wealth, power, gambling -- whatever floats the boat. Workaholism may not have had the hazardous consequences that sex or gambling addictions have, but it's removed me from life in the broadest sense of that word: kept me from intimacy with others, unwilling to plunge into the spontaneous...
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