Perfect Circle The Story Of Rem

Author : Tony Fletcher
Publisher : Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books
ISBN 13 : 9781780386980
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfect Circle written by Tony Fletcher and published by Omnibus Press& Schirmer Trade Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing fame, fortune and sexuality with the same keen eye he casts on the group's astonishing musical catalogue, Perfect Circle is neither blind fan worship nor jaundiced critical cynicism, but a balanced and thorough telling of one of the most compelling rock stories of our time. Drawing on dozens of interviews with friends, associates and the band members themselves, this is not just the story of one group's rise through cult status, but the story of American rock.Tony Fletcher's biography of the enigmatic quartet from Athens, Georgia, benefits not only from Tony's long association with the band but also by the co-operation of the band itself. However, R.E.M. - being R.E.M. - were disinclined to reveal this at the time the book was first published in 1989 and Tony was thus obliged to keep this under his hat. All such restrictions have since been lifted for newer editions, of which there have been several, and this latest incarnation of the book - now retitled Perfect Circle - brings the story to its natural conclusion with R.E.M.'s decision to disband in September, 2011.

Author : Sean Stewart
Publisher : Small Beer Press
ISBN 13 : 9781931520119
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfect Circle written by Sean Stewart and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark, funny, fast-moving novel of Texas, family, and perfect pop songs.

Author : Tony Fletcher
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 1787590836
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perfect Circle: The Story of R.E.M. written by Tony Fletcher and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.E.M., the most acclaimed American group of their generation, disbanded in September 2011 with their idealism and dignity intact. In this, the final edition of his best-selling R.E.M. biography, Tony Fletcher brings their story to a conclusion and explains what led this unique group to draw a curtain on their career. This Omnibus Enhanced digital edition of Perfect Circle includes a bonus multimedia discography charting every album and single of R.E.M’s career, presented in chronological order through audio, video and imagery. Drawing on interviews with band members, friends, associates and business partners, the book follows R.E.M.’s upward trajectory from the seminal debut Murmur in 1983 to the 1990s when their albums Out Of Time, Automatic For The People and Monster sold tens of millions, making them one of the world’s biggest groups, to their final years together. Granted access to the group throughout their career, Tony Fletcher delves beyond R.E.M.s renowned humility and social awareness, discussing fame, fortune and sexuality with the same keen eye he casts on the group’s astonishing career and musical catalogue. The result is neither blind fan worship nor jaundiced critical cynicism, but a balanced and thorough telling of one of the most compelling rock stories of our time.

Author : David Buckley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448132460
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.E.M. Fiction written by David Buckley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.E.M.'s public image has always been tightly controlled. Icons of anti-celebrity rock, who bacame huge celebrity rock stars, they were, according to the story, the first U.S. post new-wave band who were both commercially successful and cool. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Mike Mills, Peter Buck and other members of R.E.M.'s nuclear family, Fiction re-evaluates the music and career of a group who sold almost no records for the first half of their existence, then became 'the biggest rock group in the world' in the second half.

Author : Tony Fletcher
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 9780711991132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remarks Remade written by Tony Fletcher and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The updated edition brings the band's story right up to date, covering the departure of drummer Bill Berry, and the group's music right up to their Reveal album. Includes a comprehensive discography.

Author : Robert Dean Lurie
Publisher : Verse Chorus Press
ISBN 13 : 1891241699
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Begin the Begin written by Robert Dean Lurie and published by Verse Chorus Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Dean Lurie’s biography is the first completely researched and written since R.E.M. disbanded in 2011. It offers by far the most detailed account of their formative years—the early lives of the band members, their first encounters with one another, their legendary debut show, touring out of the back of a van, initial recordings, their shrewdly paced rise to fame. The people and places of ‘the South’ are crucial to the R.E.M. story in ways much more complex and interesting than have been presented thus far, says Lurie, who explores the myriad ways in which the band’s adopted hometown of Athens, Georgia, and the South in general, have shaped its members and the character and style of their art. The South is more than the background to this story; it plays a major role: the creative ferment that erupted in Athens and gripped many of its young inhabitants in the late 70s and early 80s drew on regional traditions of outsider art and general cultural out-thereness, and gave rise to a free-spirited music scene that produced the B-52’s and Pylon, and laid the ground for R.E.M.’s subsequent breakout success. Lurie has tracked down and interviewed numerous figures in the band’s history who were under-represented in or even absent from earlier biographies, and they contribute previously undocumented stories as well as casting a fresh light on the familiar narrative.

Author : Tony Fletcher
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393076714
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77 written by Tony Fletcher and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating and entertaining exploration of New York’s music scene from Cubop through folk, punk, and hip-hop. From Tony Fletcher, the acclaimed biographer of Keith Moon, comes an incisive history of New York’s seminal music scenes and their vast contributions to our culture. Fletcher paints a vibrant picture of mid-twentieth-century New York and the ways in which its indigenous art, theater, literature, and political movements converged to create such unique music. With great attention to the colorful characters behind the sounds, from trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie to Tito Puente, Bob Dylan, and the Ramones, he takes us through bebop, the Latin music scene, the folk revival, glitter music, disco, punk, and hip-hop as they emerged from the neighborhood streets of Harlem, the East and West Village, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Queens. All the while, Fletcher goes well beyond the history of the music to explain just what it was about these distinctive New York sounds that took the entire nation by storm.

Author : Marcus Gray
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306807510
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Crawled From The South written by Marcus Gray and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1997-03-21 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Niimi
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826416728
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.E.M.'s Murmur written by J. Niimi and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-04-28 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.E.M.'s debut album, released in 1983, was so far removed from the prevailing trends of American popular music that it still sounds miraculous and out of time today. J. Niimi tells the story of the album's genesis - with fascinating input from Don Dixon and Mitch Easter. He also investigates Michael Stipe's hypnotic, mysterious lyrics, and makes the case for Murmur as a work of Southern Gothic art. EXCEPRT: In the course of an interview that took place some twenty years ago, Michael Stipe made passing reference to an essay that had a deep impact on him. It's what came to his mind when, after having been harangued by fans and journalists alike about Murmur's lyrics, already grown weary from having to continually entertain their broad speculations, he finally threw up his hands. "Anyone who really wants to figure out the words to our songs should probably read this essay, then go back and listen," Stipe told the interviewer. "It talks about how people misinterpret something that's being said, and come up with a little phrase or word that actually defines the essence of what the original was better than the original did." What Stipe was trying to say is that if you want answers to R.E.M., you're not only looking in the wrong place, you're also asking the wrong questions.

Author : Rob Jovanovic
Publisher : Little, Brown UK
ISBN 13 : 9780749951474
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Stipe written by Rob Jovanovic and published by Little, Brown UK. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last quarter of a century Michael Stipe has been the lead singer of R.E.M, who from their humble beginnings toured and built a steadily growing legion of fans before breaking into the mainstream during the early 1990s. Today Stipe is one of the most instantly recognisable faces in rock and R.E.M. are held in a respect that only 25 years of excellent song writing and hard work can justify. But Stipe is much more than just the singer. Michael Stipe: The Biography will explore his nomadic early years as the child in a military family, his early love of punk and photography, his relationship with his two sisters and the drive behind one of the hardest working men in music. When not working with R.E.M. Stipe has a keen interest in film making, from pop videos and independent shorts to producing big budget full-length movies; he is keenly interested in politics, he led high profile endorsements of the Democratic party in recent elections and for many years has been a champion of environmental concerns. Using first hand testimony from those who have worked closely with Stipe, Jovanovic presents a rounded picture of this most enigmatic of pop stars.