Original Rockers - Brossura

Richard King

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571311806 ISBN 13: 9780571311804

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2016

Riassunto

A Times, Rough Trade and Uncut Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2015. Original Rockers is a clear-eyed yet romantic account of the several years that Richard King spent working behind the counter at Bristol's Revolver Records -- a business run from the heart rather than the head. King brings that lost environment back to life -- the sounds, the smells and the people -- along with a vivid sense of how it feels to discover taste-shaping records and the artists who created them for the first time. Original Rockers evokes a golden moment in British cultural history, and celebrates the magical abandon that music offers us.

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Recensione:

The first time I truly couldn't take the needle of a book. The smell of vinyl virtually emanates from the page. (Gilles Peterson)

'This is not so much a eulogy for record shops as an examination of the romantic, slightly tragic disposition of the people to whom they meant so much' (The Times (Music Book of the Year))

Original Rockers is a remarkable memory fugue, a work of rapture and reverie, a bittersweet and often moving tribute to a hallowed place. (Suhkdev Sandhu The Observer)

Part time capsule, part history lesson, part musical treasure map, Original Rockers goes beyond recalling King's several years working at Bristol's Revolver Records during the 1990s. Offering insights into the idiosyncratic, often comically dysfunctional world behind the counter, King unashamedly romanticises those pre-internet days when musical knowledge was hard won rather than a mouse-click away. (Mojo 4****)

Celebrates the independent record shop as not only a cultural hub but also a dream state, a tiny republic within a city. It's an inspiring reverie, a beautiful book about an almost extinct world. (Bob Stanley)

There are a dozen different books packed into Original Rockers - a comic portrait of Revolver, a Bristol scene history and an analysis of British experimental music, for starters, but such abundance allows the book to imitate a flick through the record racks (Q 4****)

Original Rockers is an eloquent panegyric...In its intoxicating sense of place, and King's tying together of disparate pop-cultural strands, it sometimes seems to be a modest cousin of Greil Marcus's Invisible Republic or Lipstick Traces, or an example of the idiosyncratic kind of cultural-historical writing lately done by Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys in his travelogue American Interior. (John Harris The Guardian)

A highly personal memoir that vividly articulates the sheer thrill of musical discovery , the new or previously unheard record that attaches itself to a moment in your life, from which it becomes inseparable --(Uncut 8/10)

A telling evocation of a lost past, so recent as to still be echoing in my ears, Richard King's highly personal memoir in music stirs up scenes of provincial revolution, drawing together telling, disparate strands of influence. Original Rockers reverberates with a truly alternative past, lived out on turntables, in bedrooms, and urban dives. --(Philip Hoare)

What a great achievement, it's not quite like anything else I've read - an honest, searching memoir of a maddeningly contrarian indie institution, and a reminder of the ecstasy and the agony of serious music fandom. --(Rob Young (author of 'Electric Eden'))

Descrizione del libro:

A Times, Rough Trade and Uncut Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2015.

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• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0571311806
• ISBN 13: 9780571311804
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256