Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars

"A member of seminal new-wave band Magazine, the original bassist in the legendary Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, a Mercury Prize-nominated solo artist, and pioneer of the imaginary soundtrack album--no matter where Barry Adamson's career has taken him, the result has been consistently impressive. Covering his early life up to the 1990s, [this autobiography] addresses Adamson's Mancunian and mixed-race roots, beginning in the late 1950s through to the highs of his momentous musical achievements and the lows of psychiatric hospitals and drug rehabs"--

Barry Adamson is a musician, composer, writer, photographer, actor, and filmmaker, best known as a member of Magazine and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He has worked on soundtracks with directors such as David Lynch, Derek Jarman, and Oliver Stone.