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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Da Capo Pr
Publication date
November 1, 2000
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780306810015
ISBN-10
0306810018
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 8.75 in.
Weight
0.80 lbs.
Original list price
$14.00
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
The successful rock musician and songwriter chronicles his life in music, from his miserable childhood in a rough naval town, through his days as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, to the succession of bands leading up to his solo career. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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Since the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a famously private person, whose lack of interest in his own celebrity has been interpreted by some as aloofness. That reputation is shattered by A Cure for Gravity, Jackson's enormously funny and revealing memoir of growing up musical, from a culturally impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, through London's Punk and New Wave scenes, up to the brink of pop stardom. Jackson describes his life as a teenage Beethoven fanatic; his early piano gigs for audiences of glass-throwing skinheads; and his days on the road with long-forgotten club bands. Far from a standard-issue celebrity autobiography, A Cure for Gravity is a smart, passionate book about music, the creative process, and coming of age as an artist.
Editions
Hardcover
from Public Affairs (October 1, 1999)
9781891620508 | details & prices | 285 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.32 lbs | List price $24.00
About: The successful rock musician and songwriter chronicles his life in music, from his miserable childhood in a rough naval town, through his days as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, to the succession of bands leading up to his solo career
About: The successful rock musician and songwriter chronicles his life in music, from his miserable childhood in a rough naval town, through his days as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, to the succession of bands leading up to his solo career
Paperback
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from Da Capo Pr (November 1, 2000)
9780306810015 | details & prices | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $14.00
About: The successful rock musician and songwriter chronicles his life in music, from his miserable childhood in a rough naval town, through his days as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, to the succession of bands leading up to his solo career.
About: The successful rock musician and songwriter chronicles his life in music, from his miserable childhood in a rough naval town, through his days as a student at the Royal Academy of Music, to the succession of bands leading up to his solo career.
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