Record Play Pause: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: The Joy Division Years (English Edition) -

Stephen Morris

Constable

2019

416 páginas

13h 52m

ISBN-13: 9781472126191

Stephen Morris has had a distinguished career, spanning nearly forty years, as a pivotal member of Joy Division and New Order with his trademark machine-like drumming. After the death of Joy Division's singer, Ian Curtis, in 1980, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Morris and his wife Gillian formed New Order, one of the most critically acclaimed and influential bands of the late twentieth century. New Order became the flagship band for Tony Wilson's Factory Records and, alongside him, opened the infamous Hacienda nightclub, the centre of the acid house movement. In 2015, after a ten-year hiatus, New Order released Music Complete; which charted at #2 in its first week of release (the band's highest position in over twenty years).

Stephen's book won't be that typical music autobiography, which tends to be high on mischief and low on the music. Part memoir, part aural history, it will be a hybrid memoir in Stephen's wry and witty voice. Stephen will weave a dual narrative of growing up in the North West during the 1970s with how the music actually works. It will also explore what it is to be part of a mythologised band and the idea of what you do becoming who you are.

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Imprescindível!

Mais uma leitura que os fãs de Joy Division, New Order, pós punk em geral, precisam ter.
Infelizmente não tem traduzido, mas se você fala inglês, corre lá que vale cada página. Tive um pouco de dificuldade por conta das gírias e do inglês britânico, mas lendo no Kindle contei com o dicionário para ajudar.

Pra quem toca bateria e ama esse universo todo, ler o Stephen Morris falando da sua vida, da sua relação com a música, a bateria, foi um tesouro. Em vários momentos eu ri, em outros me emocionei. Me arrepiei. Esses caras mudaram a história da música e continuam marcando a história da vida de muitas pessoas.

Eu não tinha ideia de muitas das coisas sobre ele e tive muitas descobertas sensacionais com a leitura. Estou ansiosa para a parte dois!