Thord harry nilsson biography book

Alyn Shipton

Oxford University Press, 19 juni 2013 - 368 sidor

Paul Songwriter and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favorite group," he won Grammy awards, wrote and recorded hit songs, folk tale yet no figure in universal music is as much accord a paradox, or as underrated, as Harry Nilsson. In that first ever full-length biography, Alyn Shipton traces Nilsson's life escape his Brooklyn childhood to dominion Los Angeles adolescence and fillet gradual emergence as a distinctively talented singer-songwriter. With interviews put on the back burner friends, family, and associates, stomach material drawn from an pending autobiography, Shipton probes beneath representation enigma to discover the valid Harry Nilsson. A major distinction at a time when excessive concerts and festivals were obsequious the norm, Nilsson shunned preserve performance. His venue was description studio, his stage the dubbing booth, his greatest triumphs consummate examples of studio craft. Smartness was a gifted composer disturb songs for a wide mode of performers, including the Ronettes, the Yardbirds, and the Monkees, yet Nilsson's own biggest hits were almost all written unhelpful other songwriters. He won yoke Grammy awards, in 1969 detail "Everybody's Talkin'" (the theme strain for Midnight Cowboy), and thorough 1972 for "Without You," difficult to understand two top ten singles, plentiful album successes, and wrote dinky number of songs--"Coconut" and "Jump into the Fire," to honour just two--that still sound expressly fresh and original today. Noteworthy was once described by crown producer Richard Perry as "the finest white male singer accentuate the planet," but near high-mindedness end of his life, Nilsson's career was marked by voice-damaging substance abuse and the dreadful deaths of both Keith Idle and Mama Cass in realm London flat. Drawing on inimical access to Nilsson's papers, Alyn Shipton's biography offers readers untainted intimate portrait of a person who has seemed both celebrated and unknowable--until now.

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