Robyn Hitchcock

1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left

Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 224 Seiten
ISBN 1636142060
EAN 9781636142067
Veröffentlicht 2. Juli 2024
Verlag/Hersteller Akashic Books, Ltd.
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Beschreibung

The great eccentric of British psychedelia--beloved by everyone from Led Zeppelin and R.E.M. to the late Jonathan Demme--pens a singularly unique childhood memoir . . .

Portrait

Robyn Hitchcock is a rock 'n' roll surrealist. Born in London in 1953, he describes his songs as "pictures you can listen to." As much a child of Dalí, de Chirico, and J.G. Ballard as of his 1960s musical heroes, he is a master of the absurd, reveling in the beauty of the unexpected. His first publicly visible band, the Soft Boys (1976-81), has remained an influential art-rock touchstone for generations of musicians. Hitchcock has floated at a tangent to the mainstream for nearly five decades, and his songs have been performed by R.E.M., the Replacements, Neko Case, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Lou Barlow, Grant-Lee Phillips, Sparklehorse, and Suzanne Vega with the Grateful Dead, among others. He came of age in the 1960s while he attended Winchester College, an eccentric boarding school in the south of England. This is the subject of 1967, which is both a memoir and an album, released simultaneously. Hitchcock lives in London with his wife Emma Swift and two cats, Ringo and Tubby.