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Wild Thing de Philip Norman

Wild Thing

Autor Philip Norman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 dec 2021

Imagineați-vi-l pe tânărul James Marshall Hendrix în Seattle, ciupind corzile unei ulele stricate, tremurând de teama unui tată care îl lovea de fiecare dată când încerca să cânte cu mâna stângă. Din această vulnerabilitate timpurie, Philip Norman extrage esența unei biografii ce refuză să se mulțumească doar cu mitul chitaristului care dădea foc scenei. Perspectiva unică a autorului rezidă în capacitatea de a privi dincolo de focurile de artificii de la Monterey sau Woodstock, dezvăluind un tânăr paradoxal: un geniu instrumental măcinat de o timiditate paralizantă și de o nesiguranță profundă față de propria voce.

Apreciem modul în care Norman documentează ascensiunea lui Jimi, de la cluburile segregate din Chitlin' Circuit, unde rasismul era o realitate cotidiană, până în inima „Swinging London”. Reținem mărturiile prețioase ale lui Leon Hendrix și ale femeilor care i-au modelat cariera, Kathy Etchingham și Linda Keith, care aduc o textură intimă narativului. Cartea se așază firesc pe același raft cu Two Riders Were Approaching: The Life & Death of Jimi Hendrix de Mick Wall, dar cu un accent pe rădăcinile psihologice și trauma familială care l-au urmărit pe Hendrix până în subsolul sumbru al hotelului londonez unde și-a găsit sfârșitul.

În contextul operei sale, Wild Thing completează galeria de portrete monumentale semnate de Philip Norman. Dacă în Slowhand explora rigoarea virtuoasă a lui Eric Clapton, iar în Paul McCartney analiza succesul mainstream, aici autorul revine la tema fragilității geniului, similară cu abordarea din George Harrison. Este o cronică cinematică a unei vieți care a rescris regulile rock-ului în doar patru ani, oferind în sfârșit adevărul din spatele unei tragedii mult timp învăluite în mister.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781324091073
ISBN-10: 132409107X
Pagini: 416
Dimensiuni: 137 x 206 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Liveright Publishing Corporation

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru fanii muzicii care doresc să descopere omul din spatele stratocasterului incendiat. Wild Thing nu este doar o listă de succese discografice, ci o explorare psihologică profundă a unui artist care a luptat cu rasismul și propriile demoni interiori. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere rară a industriei muzicale din anii '60 și a prețului imens plătit pentru o libertate creativă absolută.

Despre autor

Philip Norman este un jurnalist și romancier britanic de prestigiu, a cărui carieră a explodat odată cu publicarea volumului „Shout!”, considerat biografia definitivă a trupei The Beatles. Cu o experiență vastă începută la Sunday Times, unde a realizat profiluri ale unor figuri iconice precum Elizabeth Taylor sau Little Richard, Norman s-a specializat în documentarea vieților marilor muzicieni. Expertiza sa în istoria rock-ului este dublată de un acces fără precedent la cercurile intime ale subiecților săi, transformând biografiile sale în repere literare esențiale pentru înțelegerea culturii pop contemporane.

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'Arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music,' says Jimi Hendrix's citation in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. James Marshall Hendrix remains unique as an African American who broke out of the traditional 'Black' genres of blues, r&b and soul to play hard rock to an overwhelmingly white audience, almost single-handedly creating what became known as heavy metal.

With unprecedented access to Jimi's younger brother, Leon, the two most important women in his life and numerous previously untapped sources, bestselling music biographer Philip Norman resurrects the real Jimi from the almost mythical icon who has continued to influence young guitarists. His death in 1970, aged only twenty-seven when his fame was at its height, has long been rock's greatest unsolved mystery. But finally we learn where the responsibility lay for Jimi's lonely, squalid end.

'An engaging memorial to a rock revolutionary whose music, in contrast to many of his revered Sixties peers, retains much of its explosively thrilling voodoo power' The Times

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An engaging memorial to a rock revolutionary whose music, in contrast to many of his revered Sixties peers, retains much of its explosively thrilling voodoo power
Norman's access to Hendrix's younger brother Leon brings a greater clarity to the facts of their wretched upbringing. Hendrix was haunted throughout his life by his bullying, overbearing father Al, alcoholic mother Lucille, and their doomed, loveless union. Likewise, Norman puts Jim Crow America during the early 1960s into sharp focus through the prism of Hendrix's slogging on the Chitlin' Circuit, as back-up guitarist to other black powerhouses such as Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Little Richard and Curtis Mayfield... Wild Thing confirms what we already know of Hendrix: he was a true one-off, star-bright shining, and ultimately someone for whom it was all too much, too soon.
It's 50 years since Jimi Hendrix died and, as Norman puts it, became "president for eternity" of the infamous 27 Club. The guitar legend's excess all areas life story is familiar but new details emerge. Jimi's brother fills in the blanks on his wretched childhood in the US, and the racism of the UK, his adopted home, is sadly laid bare. The mystery over whether his death was accidental or murder is no clearer but Norman has one big revelation: Jimi loved watching Corrie
Hendrix's short life is outlined in detail and with insight by Norman...From being rock music critic of The Times during the 1970s to writing acclaimed biographies (deemed by many to be definitive) of Elton John, the Rolling Stones, John Lennon and Eric Clapton, Norman has the historical perspective and authentic writing nous to dig deep and achieve results
WHEN McCartney, Jagger and other grandees first saw Hendrix, 'Everyone was dumbstruck, completely in shock, as if hit by a 50-megaton H-bomb'. This book is a first-rate analysis of Hendrix's 'fretboard wizardry and showmanship' - but nothing
became the guitarist's life like the leaving of it, aged 27. Philip Norman gives a forensic account of Hendrix's death, about which controversy still rages

This is a good read that throws up interesting facts about the hugely exploitative nature of the 1960s music industry and its relationship to organised crime ... Wild Thing reveals some of the man behind the well-encrusted mythology, and sends the reader back to those wonderful records that still radiate with supernatural light

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Over fifty years after his death, Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) is celebrated as the greatest rock guitarist of all time. But before he was setting guitars and the world aflame, James Marshall Hendrix was a shy kid in Seattle, plucking at a broken ukulele and in fear of a father who would hit him for playing left-handed. Bringing Jimi's story to vivid life against the backdrop of midcentury rock, and with a wealth of new information, acclaimed music biographer Philip Norman delivers a captivating and definitive portrait of a musical legend.
Drawing from unprecedented access to Jimi's brother, Leon Hendrix, who provides disturbing details about their childhood, as well as Kathy Etchingham and Linda Keith, the two women who played vital roles in Jimi's rise to stardom, Norman traces Jimi's life from playing in clubs on the segregated Chitlin' Circuit, where he encountered daily racism, to barely surviving in New York's Greenwich Village, where was taken up by the Animals' bass player Chas Chandler in 1966 and exported to Swinging London and international stardom.
For four staggering years, from 1966 to 1970, Jimi totally rewrote the rules of rock stardom, notably at Monterey and Woodstock (where he played his protest-infused rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner"), while becoming the highest-paid musician of his day. But it all abruptly ended in the shabby basement of a London hotel with Jimi's too-early death. With remarkable detail, Wild Thing finally reveals the truth behind this long-shrouded tragedy.
Norman's exhaustive research reveals a young man who was as shy and polite in private as he was outrageous in public, whose insecurity about his singing voice could never be allayed by his instrumental genius, and whose unavailing efforts to please his father left him searching for the family he felt he never truly had. Filled with insights into the greatest moments in rock history, Wild Thing is a mesmerizing account of music's most enduring and endearing figures.