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Sonic life : a memoir

Moore, Thurston2024
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A music-obsessed retrospective, beginning with his childhood epiphany of rock 'n' roll in the early 1960s into an infatuation with the subversive world of 1970s punk and no wave blasting forth from New York City - where he eventually runs off to join a band in 1978. By 1981 Moore would form the legendary and notorious experimental rock group Sonic Youth, who proceeded to record and tour relentlessly for almost 30 years, always progressing, always exploring. Along the way we meet a constellation of artists and musicians who colluded and collided with Sonic Youth including Velvet Underground, Stooges, Patti Smith, Television, Sex Pistols, Clash, Nirvana, Hole, Beastie Boys, Neil Young and a cavalcade of other musical visionaries, as well as figures from the art world - Jean Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Gerhard Richter.
Main title:
Sonic life : a memoir / Thurston Moore.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2024.
Collation:
496 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.
ISBN:
9780571373970 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
782.42166782.421
Language:
English
BRN:
2470322
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