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Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt
Marcus O´dair
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Description for Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 154 x 40. Weight in Grams: 700.
Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with Jimi Hendrix. He brought a Bohemian and jazz outlook to the 60s rock scene, having honed his drumming skills in a shed at the end of Robert Graves' garden in Mallorca. His life took an abrupt turn after he fell from a fourth-floor window at a party and was paralysed from the waist down. He reinvented himself as a singer and composer with the extraordinary album Rock Bottom, and in the ... Read more
Robert Wyatt started out as the drummer and singer for Soft Machine, who shared a residency at Middle Earth with Pink Floyd and toured America with Jimi Hendrix. He brought a Bohemian and jazz outlook to the 60s rock scene, having honed his drumming skills in a shed at the end of Robert Graves' garden in Mallorca. His life took an abrupt turn after he fell from a fourth-floor window at a party and was paralysed from the waist down. He reinvented himself as a singer and composer with the extraordinary album Rock Bottom, and in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
695 g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846687600
SKU
V9781846687600
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About Marcus O´dair
Marcus O'Dair is a writer, lecturer and musician. He writes on music for the Guardian, Independent and FT. He is also a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 3 and BBC 6 Music. He is also one half of the Ninja Tune act Grasscut, who have performed at the Pompidou Centre and across Europe.
Reviews for Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt
An uplifting, inspiring book ... compelling and entertaining
Mike Barnes
Mojo
English music has produced some fascinating personalities, but few are as unusual as Robert Wyatt. This excellent book captures his gentle, generous and intelligent personality, and is incidentally a very good history of the music scene in England from the sixties onwards.
Brian Eno I ... Read more
Mike Barnes
Mojo
English music has produced some fascinating personalities, but few are as unusual as Robert Wyatt. This excellent book captures his gentle, generous and intelligent personality, and is incidentally a very good history of the music scene in England from the sixties onwards.
Brian Eno I ... Read more