Lee Brilleaux
Title | Lee Brilleaux PDF eBook |
Author | Zoë Howe |
Publisher | Polygon |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Rhythm and blues musicians |
ISBN | 9781846973499 |
Lee Brilleaux, the charismatic star of proto-punk R&B reprobates Dr Feelgood, was one of rock'n'roll's greatest frontmen. But he was also one of its greatest gentlemen - a class act with heart, fire, wanderlust and a wild streak.Exploding out of Canvey Island in the early 1970s - an age of glam rock, post-hippy folk and pop androgyny - the Feelgoods, with Lee Brilleaux and Wilko Johnson at the helm, charged into London, grabbed the pub rock scene by the throat and sparked a revolutionary new era, proving that you didn't have to be middle class, wearing the 'right clothes' or living in the 'right place' to succeed.
Every Record Tells a Story
Title | Every Record Tells a Story PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Carr |
Publisher | |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781913663384 |
No Sleep Till Canvey Island
Title | No Sleep Till Canvey Island PDF eBook |
Author | Will Birch |
Publisher | Virgin Books Limited |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Rock music |
ISBN | 9780753507407 |
It began with an outrageous press trip to New York to launch unknown rock band Brinsley Schwarz, which went disastrously wrong, and it went on to launch the careers of Ian Dury, Elvis Costello and Joe Strummer. The pub rock scene of the early 1970s was one of the most eventful and important in British music history.
Be Stiff
Title | Be Stiff PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Balls |
Publisher | Soundcheck Books |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2014-10-30 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0957570066 |
More Than Just A Record Label! Told here for the first time, the complete story of the legendary Stiff Records
Looking Back at Me
Title | Looking Back at Me PDF eBook |
Author | Wilko Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2012-05 |
Genre | Guitarists |
ISBN | 9780957171701 |
'Looking Back At Me' is the autobiography of the guitarist Wilko Johnson, written and collated with Zoe Howe. Within the pages of this vibrant rock 'n' roll scrapbook, the former Dr Feelgood guitarist and beloved British R&B legend tells his story in his own words.
Don't You Leave Me Here
Title | Don't You Leave Me Here PDF eBook |
Author | Wilko Johnson |
Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2016-05-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1408708019 |
'Man, there's nothing like being told you're dying to make you feel alive.' In 2013, Dr Feelgood founder, Blockheads member and musical legend Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with terminal cancer. With ten months to live, he decided to accept his imminent death and went on the road. His calm, philosophical response made him even more beloved and admired. And then the strangest thing happened: he didn't die. Don't You Leave Me Here is the story of his life in music, his life with cancer, and his life now - in the future he never thought he would see.
How's Your Dad?: Living in the Shadow of a Rock Star Parent
Title | How's Your Dad?: Living in the Shadow of a Rock Star Parent PDF eBook |
Author | Zoë Howe |
Publisher | Omnibus Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2010-06-07 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0857124153 |
What's it like growing up as the offspring of rock royalty? Living through bizarre backstage – and onstage – experiences, unconventional childhoods, drugs, debts and mad babysitters, the subjects of this book may have grown up quickly but their backgrounds shaped them in very different ways. In this frank and affectionate book, Zoë Street Howe meets the children of iconic music figures and discovers if a rock star parent really is a blessing or a curse.