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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 […]

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January 14, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Bernard Purdie: Let The Drums Speak! The Life Story of the World’s Most Recorded Drummer

Let The Drums Speak! The Life Story of the World’s Most Recorded Drummer Bernard Purdie/Jack Hoban Pretty Media LLC What a giant disappointment this was. Here I was looking forward to some great stories about one of the world’s very best drummers, instead I was bored silly with stories of him growing up a paperboy, […]