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Creation Stories de Alan McGee

Creation Stories

Autor Alan McGee
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 iun 2014
Alan McGee is the charismatic, outspoken founder of Creation Records; a man who survived a tough upbringing in seventies Glasgow to become one of the most influential figures in British music. In his honest, entertaining and often hilarious memoir he takes us behind the scenes at his notoriously hedonistic label as he provokes riots with the Jesus and Mary Chain, is almost bankrupted by My Bloody Valentine, keeps the faith with Primal Scream, conquers the world with Oasis, becomes a figurehead for Britpop and manages the Libertines. Crammed with brilliant stories, and set against Alan's dramatic drug-induced breakdown and gradual recovery, this is a classic rock memoir by a true maverick with a passion for music that never left him.
'From mixing sound for My Bloody Valentine on mushrooms, via driving motorists off the road by commissioning billboard posters of Kevin Rowland flashing his pants, to escorting Carl Barat to A&E with one eyeball hanging out of its socket, the book bursts with tall-but-true tales' NME
'It's fast and loose and as insane as the label, full of great anecdotes and machine gun prose . . . it doesn't flinch from the truth' John Robb
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ISBN-13: 9781447225911
ISBN-10: 1447225910
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 131 x 200 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Ediția:Unabridged ed
Editura: Pan Macmillan

Descriere

Alan McGee's role in shaping British musical culture over the past thirty years is hard to overstate. As the founder of Creation Records he brought us the bands that defined an era. A charismatic Glaswegian who partied just as hard as any of the acts on his notoriously hedonistic label, he became an infamous character in the world of music. In Creation Stories he tells his story in depth for the first time, from leaving school at sixteen to setting up the Living Room club in London which showcased many emerging indie bands, from managing the Jesus and Mary Chain to co-founding Creation when he was only twenty-three. His label brought us acts like My Bloody Valentine, House of Love, Ride and, of course, Primal Scream. Embracing acid house, Alan decamped to Manchester and hung out at the Hacienda, and took Creation into the big time with Screamadelica. His drug-induced breakdown, when it came was dramatic. But as he climbed back to sobriety, he oversaw Oasis's rise to become one of the biggest bands in the world. Alan himself becoming one of the figureheads of Britpop. Having sold the label to Sony to stave off bankruptcy, he became disenchanted with the increasingly corporate ethos and left in 1999. Since then he's continued to be an influential figure in the music industry, managing the Libertines and most recently setting up a new label, 359 Music, with Cherry Red.