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March 17, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Bob Odenkirk: Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama Bob Odenkirk Penguin Random House I love Bob Odenkirk. Have done since before I knew his name. He just kept popping up on things. That same face in everything. A mild smirk. A guy who had some sadness, some trauma etched onto him and laced all through his comedy. A guy […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Autobiography, Bob Odenkirk, Bob Odenkirk: Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, Book, Book Review, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama, David Cross, Director, Get A Life, Memoir, Movie, Mr. Show, Penguin Random House, SNL, Stage, Star, The Ben Stiller Show, To follow me in all the right places check out the Linktree right here. And to subscribe to my Substack newsletter “Sounds Good” click here, TV, Writer, Writing ·

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December 20, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Mel Brooks: All About Me!

All About Mel! My Remarkable Life in Show Business Mel Brooks Penguin Random House I love a good Hollywood memoir – packed with stories, famous names and some cracking good yarns. I’ve always loved a good Hollywood memoir, but maybe now they’re even more of a treat. The chance to just ignore the social media […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged All About Me!, All About Mel! My Remarkable Life in Show Business, Autobiography, Book, Book Review, Comedy, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Mel Brooks, Mel Brooks: All About Me!, Memoir, Penguin, Random House, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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October 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

What’s The Worst Music Bio You’ve Read?

I’ve never been as disappointed by a music bio/auto-bio as I was when reading the Bernard Purdie one; it’s hard to know what the book was even trying to be – it’s written in third person but claims to be an autobiography, there’s no attempt to even ‘get’ Purdie’s voice, there’s no real attempt to hide […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Autobiography, Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, Biography, Blog, Book, Book Reviews, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Let The Drums Speak, Let The Drums Speak! The Life Story of the World’s Most Recorded Drummer, Memoir, Reading, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, What's The Worst Music Bio You've Read?, Worst, Worst Music Bio, Writing ·

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October 4, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Cassandra Peterson: Yours Cruelly, Elvira

Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark Cassandra Peterson Hachette Books Growing up, Elvira: Mistress of The Dark was everywhere. We played the video game, we watched the movie. She popped up in pro-wrestling (Wrestlemania II) and was a fan of, and tagged alongside, horror movies and heavy metal. What wasn’t to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Autobiography, Book, Book Review, Cassandra Peterson, Elvira, Film, Horror, https://linktr.ee/Simonsweetman, Memoir, Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark, metal, Movies, The Mistress of the Dark, TV, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Yours Cruelly, Yours Cruelly Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark ·

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June 8, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: The Hope To Not Repeat

the autobiography you never knew you’d write is the one you add to each and every night – confession here, reminder there – stories arrive when you sit to ponder, are they ‘good’ you almost never wonder, instead the job is to get them down – add to the files, surround yourself with reminders of […]
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May 22, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Billie Eilish: Billie Eilish by Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish Billie Eilish Grand Central Publishing A couple of years ago my then-9-year old niece wanted to listen to her music in the car. Only fair. We’d had mine. And the 11-year-old nephew’s – and the 7-year-old son’s, it was her turn. And she wanted to listen to Billie Eilish. And this was of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Autobiography, Billie Eilish, Billie Eilish by Billie Eilish, Billie Eilish: Billie Eilish, Billie Eilish: Billie Eilish by Billie Eilish, Book, Book Review, Grand Central Publishing, Photo Album, Photo Book, Photographs, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 29, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Books That Blew My Mind # 4: “Faithfull” by Marianne Faithfull

Faithfull by Marianne Faithfull (w/ David Dalton) Was reminiscing about this just recently; recommending it to my sister-in-law, saying that it was one of the great rock’n’roll reads actually. It found me at a formative time, I was at the peak of my Stones fandom and I was newly interested in all the characters – […]
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December 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Books That Blew My Mind # 1: “Is That It?” by Bob Geldof

Is That It?, by Bob Geldof I’m often asked what my favourite music bio is – or favourite “music book” – and the answer I usually want to give is this, Bob Geldof’s autobiography. Except it isn’t really about music – and it wasn’t really the book that lit the fuse for me. It was […]
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September 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Chris Frantz: Remain In Love

Remain In Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina Chris Frantz St. Martin’s Press Talking Heads made nearly perfect music across 10 nearly perfect albums (eight studio, two live). There are post-punkers and people there at the time that swear only by the first four albums, thinking the second half of the band’s career some […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Autobiography, Book, Book Review, Chris Frantz, Chris Frantz: Remain In Love, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison, Memoir, Remain In Light, Remain In Love, Remain In Love: Talking Heads Tom Tom ClubTina, St. Martin's Press, Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads, Tina Weymouth, Tom Tom Club, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Tori Amos: Resistance – A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

Resistance: A Songwriter’s Story of Hope, Change, and Courage Tori Amos Atria Books As soon as I caught the news that it was happening I was excited about this book – I see myself as something of a lapsed-fan when it comes to Tori Amos; I have nothing but fond memories of the first few […]
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April 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Neil Young & Phil Baker: To Feel The Music

To Feel The Music: A Songwriter’s Mission To Save High-Quality Audio Neil Young & Phil Baker BenBella Books Neil Young has written three books (so far) and I’m sure there’s the threat of more. He was never going to write a conventional memoir – even though that’s what Waging Heavy Peace technically was, then there […]
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March 18, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

James Taylor: Break Shot – My First 21 Years

James Taylor Break Shot: My First 21 Years Audible Originals It seems Audible (Amazon) is battling against Spotify and every other podcast platform – so they’re introducing original content that isn’t just 39 hours of a book being read by a BBC-grade thespian. There are now scripted fiction podcast and documentary podcast series’ exclusive to […]
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