Mark Ellen
Autor von Rock Stars Stole My Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music
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Ellen takes us through his music obsession and how it impacted on his life - from his early innocent visiting of festivals to Uni, to squats and getting a freelance writing gig with NME. Along the way we meet some of the people he worked with and some of the musicians he encountered. Its not a book stuffed with "then I met...and they were AWFUL" stories but there are a few. The story of meeting an early musical obsession Roy Harper, with Jimmy Page in the Lake District for Whistle Test had me in stitches and had me reaching for youtube to find the final edited clip they rescued from the experience (its up there too). Similarly his final encounter in the book, a week spent on a jet with Rihanna is an eye opener and he uses it to show how things have changed in the music business over his time linked with it.
Very enjoyable book - Ellen's writing style is engaging, witty and very entertaining. Perhaps the only fault I can find is the encounters were so entertainingly told, I would gladly have taken a few more in there.… (mehr)