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Autor Rickie Lee Jonesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 apr 2021
- RLJ skyrocketed to fame overnight after her performance of "Chuck E's in Love" on Saturday Night Live. Chuck E went on to top the US Billboard Hot 100 at #4 and RLJ was dubbed the "Duchess of Coolsville" by Time magazine
- Other iconic hits include Young Blood (US #40), and The Horses (which featured in Jerry Maguire). RLJ has been featured twice on the cover of Rolling Stone and been profiled in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Mojo Magazine among others, and was listed at number 30 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll
- This is no holds barred account of the life of one of rock's hardest working women in her own words; from her nomadic childhood as the granddaughter of vaudevillian performers, her father's abandonment and her years as a teenage runaway, her beginnings at the Troubador club and the 70s LA jazz pop scene, her tumultuous (and private) relationship with Tom Waits, her overnight rise to stardom after performing Chuck E on Saturday Night Live, her battle with drugs, and longevity as a woman in rock
- Beautiful, untold account of her relationship with Tom Waits: "Tom Waits and I were like Mary Astor and Humphrey Bogart in Across the Pacific. We found ourselves alone on a steamer headed to some port or another; it didn't matter to us. He was a worn and troubled traveler from another life, and I was an innocent and mysterious impulse, a woman out of place, holding my ground, beat for beat. I was only his..."
- Details with candor the misogynist "boys club" world of rock and her life as a strong woman and mother in it. Brilliant anecdotes about the industry including her collaborations with Bruce Springsteen, Dr John, Lyle Lovett, and Steely Dan to name but a few
- She is one of few women performers of her generation-including Bonnie Rait and Emmylou Harris-who still works, tours, and releases new material. She inspired and paved the way for artists such as Sheryl Crow, Susanne Vega, Tori Amos, and Jewel to follow
- Will appeal to fans of music memoirs like Patti Smith's Just Kids, Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Keith Richard's Life, Carly Simon's Boys in the Trees, Rodney Crowell's Chinaberry Sidewalks, and Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781611854466
ISBN-10: 1611854466
Dimensiuni: 159 x 233 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: ATLANTIC BOOKS LTD
ISBN-10: 1611854466
Dimensiuni: 159 x 233 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: ATLANTIC BOOKS LTD
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Rickie Lee Jones
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A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing and tenacious women in music.
A tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing and tenacious women in music.
Recenzii
“Men leave, fame fizzles, family breaks your heart . . . but Jones knows a good story and how to tell it." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Winding and leisurely, as rich and colorful as Jones’s best lyrics. It’s a classically American picaresque tale. . . Jones paints a striking, distinctive self-portrait." — New York Times
“This tender, fierce, intimate memoir is testament that Jones has lived a life as brave . . . and rich as her music — with love, heartbreak, addiction, and magic, sprinkled throughout.” — O, the Oprah Magazine
“Vividly cinematic. . . Sexy and moving and sad.” — BookForum
“A jaw-dropping youth, and an addictive, funny, eccentric and perceptive memoir.” — Nick Hornby, author of Just Like You
“So remarkably beautifully written, showing [Rickie Lee’s] signature as a songwriter, too.” — NPR
“In this raw and roving life story, Jones depicts a child who recognized her humanity and worth even when others wouldn’t, and a woman whose confidence helped her rise above heroin addiction, music-industry sexism and the traumas of her youth . . . In a book about the past, Jones has no problem moving on. It’s a neat trick.” — Washington Post
“Candid, cosmic, so cool . . . An impassioned and cinematic trip through Jones’s eventful life. I shouldn’t be surprised that Jones manages to carry her originality, intimacy, and volcanic expressiveness into book form.” — Boston Globe
“Terrific . . . The prose is rich and rhythmic, filled with lines that are pithy (‘Rickie Lee is a Frank Capra movie that had been overtaken by Stanley Kubrick’) and poetic (‘childhood traumas leave their dirty footprints on the fresh white snow of our happy-ever-afters’) . . . Jones is as fearless in prose as she is on stage. ” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Well-crafted and intensely candid.” — San Diego Union-Tribune
“One of the most compelling memoirs I’ve ever read . . . What really sucks you in, and lifts you up, is the dazzling magic of her prose.” — Please Kill Me
“What makes this a most inspiring memoir is her absorbing storytelling, facility with language (no surprise there) and her fealty to integrity – commerce be damned.” — Mojo
“Winding and leisurely, as rich and colorful as Jones’s best lyrics. It’s a classically American picaresque tale. . . Jones paints a striking, distinctive self-portrait." — New York Times
“This tender, fierce, intimate memoir is testament that Jones has lived a life as brave . . . and rich as her music — with love, heartbreak, addiction, and magic, sprinkled throughout.” — O, the Oprah Magazine
“Vividly cinematic. . . Sexy and moving and sad.” — BookForum
“A jaw-dropping youth, and an addictive, funny, eccentric and perceptive memoir.” — Nick Hornby, author of Just Like You
“So remarkably beautifully written, showing [Rickie Lee’s] signature as a songwriter, too.” — NPR
“In this raw and roving life story, Jones depicts a child who recognized her humanity and worth even when others wouldn’t, and a woman whose confidence helped her rise above heroin addiction, music-industry sexism and the traumas of her youth . . . In a book about the past, Jones has no problem moving on. It’s a neat trick.” — Washington Post
“Candid, cosmic, so cool . . . An impassioned and cinematic trip through Jones’s eventful life. I shouldn’t be surprised that Jones manages to carry her originality, intimacy, and volcanic expressiveness into book form.” — Boston Globe
“Terrific . . . The prose is rich and rhythmic, filled with lines that are pithy (‘Rickie Lee is a Frank Capra movie that had been overtaken by Stanley Kubrick’) and poetic (‘childhood traumas leave their dirty footprints on the fresh white snow of our happy-ever-afters’) . . . Jones is as fearless in prose as she is on stage. ” — Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Well-crafted and intensely candid.” — San Diego Union-Tribune
“One of the most compelling memoirs I’ve ever read . . . What really sucks you in, and lifts you up, is the dazzling magic of her prose.” — Please Kill Me
“What makes this a most inspiring memoir is her absorbing storytelling, facility with language (no surprise there) and her fealty to integrity – commerce be damned.” — Mojo