Last Orders Please: Rod Stewart, the Faces and the Britain we forgot - Brossura

Melly, Jim

Brossura

ISBN 10: 009188618X ISBN 13: 9780091886189

Casa editrice: Ebury Press, 2003

Riassunto

'There was this terrible trough in the mid-70s: England didn't qualify forthe 1974 World Cup, Miss Hall our English teacher left school, and the Faces split.' Billy BraggDo you remember The Faces? The group that was born out of the ashes of the legendary sixties band the Small Faces, but with the addition of Ron Wood on guitar (later to join the Stones) and Rod Stewart on vocals. Last Orders, Please is the first biography of the band who have acquired legendary status in the annals of rock 'n' roll history. It's also a book about Britain in a forgotten era - the early seventies. Not the seventies of Glam Rock, Sweet and Gary Glitter, but the real seventies of the three day week, trade union strikes, blackouts, the IRA, steak, chips and warm beer. In these difficult times it was the Faces - a soulful, goodtime band who drank and played hard, who didn't dress to impress, but just got on with the job - that the working class adopted as its own. In the days before football was fashionable the Faces played soccer on stage on TOTP. In 1974 this was a near-political act that confirmed The Faces as truly a people's band, and they are still loved, and revered to this day.

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Recensione:

"full of fascinating insights into the early careers of Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood, and anecdotes of rock personalities" (Daily Express)

Descrizione del libro:

First biography of the infamous band and the Britain that created them

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• Editore: Ebury Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 009188618X
• ISBN 13: 9780091886189
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336