Music from Big Pink: A Novella (33 1/3)
John Niven
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Description for Music from Big Pink: A Novella (33 1/3)
Paperback. A factional novella: a place where fictional characters rub shoulders with real people, and where actual documented events thread their way through the text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of 23-year-old Greg Keltner, drug dealer, wannabe musician, and hanger-on, here, we witness the gestation and birth of an entertaining album. Series: 33 1/3. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 121 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146. Series: 33 1/3. 160 pages. A factional novella: a place where fictional characters rub shoulders with real people, and where actual documented events thread their way through the text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of 23-year-old Greg Keltner, drug dealer, wannabe musician, and hanger-on, here, we witness the gestation and birth of an entertaining album. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVGP. Dimension: 163 x 121 x 12. Weight: 166.
Music From Big Pink is a factional novella: a place where fictional characters rub shoulders with real people, and where actual documented events thread their way through the text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of twenty-three-year-old Greg Keltner, drug dealer, wannabe musician, and hanger-on, we witness the gestation and birth of an album that will go on to cast its spell across forty years. John Niven brings these characters to life with remarkable skill, and the result is an exhilarating, vivid, and powerfully moving book about the highs - and lows - of creating musical history.
Music From Big Pink is a factional novella: a place where fictional characters rub shoulders with real people, and where actual documented events thread their way through the text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of twenty-three-year-old Greg Keltner, drug dealer, wannabe musician, and hanger-on, we witness the gestation and birth of an album that will go on to cast its spell across forty years. John Niven brings these characters to life with remarkable skill, and the result is an exhilarating, vivid, and powerfully moving book about the highs - and lows - of creating musical history.
Product Details
Publisher
Continuum
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
33 1/3
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780826417718
SKU
V9780826417718
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99-50
About John Niven
John Niven toured and recorded as a guitarist in the Wishing Stones (their sole LP Wildwood owes more than a passing debt to the music of The Band), before becoming an A&R man and working with acts like Travis, Mogwai, and Sigur Ros. He lives just outside of London, and this is his first book.
Reviews for Music from Big Pink: A Novella (33 1/3)
'A brilliant series of pocket-sized books focussing on a classic album. Each one a work of real love.' NME