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Heroes And Villains: The True Story Of The Beach Boys

Door Steven Gaines

Categorie	Popmuziek & Modern
Boeknummer	#342889-XH17
Titel	Heroes And Villains: The True Story Of The Beach Boys
Auteur	Gaines, Steven
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York : Da Capo Press
Jaar van uitgave	1995
ISBN10	0306806479
ISBN13	9780306806476
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting	"The Beach Boys have been rolling, like the tide their great songs evoke, for more than thirty years, reaching professional peaks and tragic personal depths. In this electrifying account Steven Gaines" The Beach Boys have been rolling, like the tide their great songs evoke, for more than thirty years, reaching professional peaks and tragic personal depths. In this electrifying account Steven Gaines reveals the gothic tale of violence, addiction, greed, genius, madness, and rock'n' roll behind the wholesome, surf-and-sun image. Through candid interviews with close friends, family, and the Beach Boys themselves, Heroes and Villains portrays and evaluates all those who propelled the California myth, and the group who sang about it, into worldwide prominence: Murry Wilson, the corro... (Lees verder)sive father who abused them as children and exploited them as adults Dennis Wilson, who explored every avenue of excess (including welcoming the entire Manson family into his home) to his inevitable self-destruction the Wilsons' cousin, frontman Mike Love, whose devotion to eastern religion could not quell his violent temper the wives (more than ten), mistresses, managers, and producers who consumed huge pieces of the "musical pie" and of course, the band's artistic centre, Brian Wilson, the mentally fragile musical genius who achieved so much and then so little. With dozens of photos, Heroes and Villains recounts the bitter saga of the American dream realized and distorted and the music that survived.
Pagina's	374
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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