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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 […]Archive
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 – […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 byArchive
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 […]Archive
April 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman