My Rock 'n' Roll Friend

My Rock 'n' Roll Friend
Tracey Thorn
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 256pg
7 Apr 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781786898234
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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 to Thorn. They shared the joy and the struggle of being women in a band, trying to outwit and face down a chauvinist music media. In My Rock ' n' Roll Friend Thorn takes stock of thirty-seven years of friendship, teasing out the details of connection and affection between two women who seem to be either complete opposites or mirror images of each other. This important book asks what people see, who does the looking, and ultimately who writes women out of - and back into - history.
PRAISE FOR ANOTHER PLANET: A beautiful writer . . . Exceptional . . . Made me catch my breath . . . Her language is straightforward, chatty, easy-to-read. Musical. Though Thorn tells us sharp truths, we gobble them up because she delivers them in such a deceptively pretty, poignant way -- Miranda Sawyer * * Financial Times * * When Thorn digs into her adolescence, the book sparks with wit and poignancy, helped by extracts from her teenage diaries that she smartly exploits for comedy and bathos * * The Times * * Readers of Thorn' s two previous memoirs will recognise the tone of this book, with its beautifully clean style, careful self-questioning and pervasive likability * * Guardian * * Tender, wise and funny * * Sunday Express * * I adored this. Wise, tender, beautifully observed, deadly funny. A Green Belt memoir classic -- MAX PORTER Tracey Thorn' s memoir of growing up in suburbia finds the extraordinary in the ordinary . . . Thorn is a writer who can "give the mundane its beautiful due" . . . [A] delightful, incisive memoir -- Frank Cottrell-Boyce * * New Statesman * * What a wise and funny book. Nostalgic but unsentimental, Thorn beautifully captures the aspirations, ennui and angst of suburban teenage life. I loved it -- DAVID NICHOLLS Another Planet is about being a teenager in suburbia in the 1970s, and revisiting one' s own youth from middle age. It touches on class, culture, music, plum jam and parenting teens. It' s wonderful. You' ll read it in one go -- NINA STIBBE A thoughtful guide to the Seventies as [Thorn] muses on her teenage years in rural Hertfordshire * * Daily Mail * * This tender-hearted, tough-minded book seems set to revivify a genre that can too often be self-deluding and thus pointless . . . She' s a brilliant writer * * Spectator * *
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 children. @tracey_thorn | traceythorn. com
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781786898234
Published: 7 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 256

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