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Original rockers
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- Book Synopsis
- A Times, Rough Trade and Uncut Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2015. Original Rockers is a clear-eyed yet romantic account of the several years that Richard King spent working behind the counter at Bristol's Revolver Records -- a business run from the heart rather than the head. King brings that lost environment back to life -- the sounds, the smells and the people -- along with a vivid sense of how it feels to discover taste-shaping records and the artists who created them for the first time. Original Rockers evokes a golden moment in British cultural history, and celebrates the magical abandon that music offers us.
- About The Author
- RICHARD KING is the author of Original Rockers (shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and a Rough Trade, Times and Uncut Book of the Year), How Soon Is Now? (a Sunday Times Music Book of the Year), The Lark Ascending (a Rough Trade, MOJO and Evening Standard Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Penderyn Prize), Brittle with Relics and, most recently, Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, A Life, all published by Faber & Faber. His recent appointments have included Visiting Simon Industrial and Professional Fellow, University of Manchester and Royal Literary Fund Fellow, School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University. He is currently writing a history of the art school. richardhywelking.com
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571311804
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (07 July 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 252
- Weight
- 200 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 196 x 130 x 11 mm
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