I Just Can't Stop It

My Life in The Beat

Ranking Roger, Daniel Rachel (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2021
Omnibus Press (Verlag)
978-1-913172-43-5 (ISBN)

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I Just Can't Stop It is the honest and compelling autobiography from British Music Legend, Ranking Roger. As the enigmatic frontman of the multicultural band The Beat, Ranking Roger represented the youthful and joyous sound of the post-punk 2 Tone movement.

As well as his illustrious career with The Beat and its subsequent iterations, this absorbing book explores Roger's upbringing as a child of the Windrush generation, touring America and his outstanding collaborations with artists such as The Clash, The Police and The Specials.

Musician-turned-award-winning-author, Daniel Rachel wrote his first song when he was sixteen and was the lead-singer in Rachels Basement. Daniel is the author of Isle of Noises: Conversations with Great British Songwriters - a Guardian and NME Book of the Year Walls Come Tumbling Down: the music and politics of Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge - WINNER OF the Penderyn Music Book prize. Don't Look Back in Anger: The rise and Fall of Cool Britannia - an Evenign Standard and Metro Book of the Year

Erscheinungsdatum	07.06.2021
Zusatzinfo	24 pp b/w and colour photos
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	1-913172-43-0 / 1913172430
ISBN-13	978-1-913172-43-5 / 9781913172435
Zustand	Neuware