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My Rock ´n´ Roll Friend
Tracey Thorn
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Description for My Rock ´n´ Roll Friend
Hardback.
'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian
'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti
A TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by gossip and feminism, books and gigs and rock 'n' roll love affairs.
Morrison - a headstrong heroine blazing her way through a male-dominated industry - came to be a kind of mentor ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786898227
SKU
9781786898227
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-7
About Tracey Thorn
Tracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles, and three books, including the Sunday Times bestsellers Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen. She lives in London, with her husband Ben Watt and their three ... Read more
Reviews for My Rock ´n´ Roll Friend
A vivid and witty memoir of the friendship between Thorn and Lindy Morrison of the Go-Betweens, two women in a cultural world dominated by men . . . [Thorn] brings wit, candour and vividness to her storytelling . . . As well as providing a portrait of a mercurial and brilliant musician, the book exposes the sexism and hypocrisy of ... Read more