Dave Thompson

Hearts of Darkness (eBook, ePUB)

James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Cat Stevens and the Unlikely Rise of the Singer-Songwriter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hearts of Darkness is the story of a generation's coming of age through the experiences of its three most atypical pop stars. James Taylor, Jackson Browne, and Cat Stevens could never have been considered your typical late-sixties songwriters - self-absorbed and self-composed, all three eschewed the traditional means of delivering their songs, instead turning its process inward. The result was a body of work that stands among the most profoundly personal art ever to translate into an international language, and a sequence of songs - from "Sweet Baby James" and "Carolina in My Mind " to "Jamaica Say You Will" and "These Days " to "Peace Train" and "Wild World" - that remain archetypes not only of what the critics called the singer-songwriter movement, but of the human condition itself. Author Dave Thompson, himself a legend among rock biographers, takes on his subjects with his usual brio and candor, leaving no stone unturned in his quest to shine a light on the dark side of this profoundly earnest era in popular music. Penetrating, pointed, and laced with vivid insight and detail, Hearts of Darkness is the story of rock when it no longer felt the need to roll.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Backbeat
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781458471406
• Artikelnr.: 55112634

Autorenporträt

Dave Thompson is editor of the renowned Goldmine Record Price Guides, a discographical expert whose work has appeared in Goldmine, Record Collector, DISCoveries and many other record collecting magazines. He is author, too, of Record Collecting for Dummies (published 2024) and 2018's The Ultimate Guide to Vinyl and More: All You Need to Know About Collecting Essential Music, from Cylinders and CDs to LPs and Tapes, alongside over 150 books on rock, pop, movies, television and pop culture.