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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Autobiography, Biography, Bob Geldef, Book, Books That Blew My Mind, Books That Blew My Mind # 1, Books That Blew My Mind # 1: “Is That It?” by Bob Geldof, Boomtown Rats, Is That It?, Live Aid, Music Book, Pink Floyd The Wall, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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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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November 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Autobiography

I was born before my father could park the car my first words were, “I want to collect all of it!” I took a pocketknife to kindergarten for show and tell, and couldn’t understand why the teacher was upset. Mum was too. (But she still gave me the milky bar later). I always hated family […]
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October 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: To Be Remembered By

The Greatest Hits EP like the 150-page auto- biography is hard to come by. It’s the ultimate statement. Leave ego at the door and in no more than six songs create something to be remembered by
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Autobiography, Ego, EP, Greatest Hits, Poem, Poem: To Be Remembered By, The Greatest Hits EP like the 150-page auto- biography is hard to come by. It’s the ultimate statement. Leave ego at the door and in no more than six songs create something to be remembered by, To Be Remembered By ·

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July 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Shayne Carter: Dead People I Have Known

Dead People I Have Known  Shayne Carter VUP I started this book before there were any reviews of it anywhere – I was loving it. Like everyone! But shelved it to get to other things. And then (finally) finished it just after every single review had been printed or posted. Lots of great column inches in celebration […]
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April 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 165 – Graeme Jefferies (The CakeKitchen)

Welcome to episode 165 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.  Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify– follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. Here’s a conversation I had with Graeme Jefferies – […]
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April 13, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Graeme Jefferies: Time Flowing Backwards

Time Flowing Backwards: A Memoir  Graeme Jefferies   Mosiac Press  Graeme Jefferies has made some of the great noisy pop from New Zealand – he’s sent it out to the world, taken it with him as he’s traveled through America and based himself – for huge periods of time – in Europe; then he brought it all back home […]
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January 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 344

Avantdale Bowling Club, Avantdale Bowling Club (2018) I was sold on this on first listen – I’ve liked most of what Tom Scott has done ahead of this project, but this is the one. And in fact when I reviewed the album I talked about it being the local-act album of the year; more than […]
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