Gigantic

The Story of Frank Black & the Pixies

John Mendelssohn (Autor)

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360 Seiten

2005
Music Sales Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84449-490-3 (ISBN)

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Gigantic: The Story of Frank Black and the "Pixies"

John Mendelssohn

2006

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The Pixies were a shock to the system. Emerging from their first rehearsal held in a squalid Boston basement, they were soon the toast of the UK and Europe - the new saviours of rock 'n' roll. Forerunners of grunge and with a repetoire of seriously weird songs, they made a virtue out of eccentricity. Then when mega-stardom threatened, Pixies' songwriter and singer Charles Thompson, a.k.a. Black Francis, ditched the band, rechristened himself Frank Black and insisted he hated the group...until deciding to reform it for a sell-out tour in 2004!

John Mendelssohn has been writing about music off and on since long before 'Wuthering Heights'. The Guardian said, "Worth the price [of Bloomsbury's 2003 anthology of music writing The Sound and the Fury] alone is John Mendelssohn's superb dismantling of the NWA myth..." He also writes for the stage, acts, and directs, and composes and arranges, and designs.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.1.2005
Zusatzinfo	b&w photos
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
ISBN-10	1-84449-490-X / 184449490X
ISBN-13	978-1-84449-490-3 / 9781844494903
Zustand	Neuware