Chris Salewicz, Author . FSG/Faber and Faber $27 (629p) ISBN 978-0-571-21178-4
In this biography of punk icon Joe Strummer, music writer Salewicz focuses on the heady days of the punk explosion and Strummer's long hiatus after leaving the Clash. Born John Graham Mellor in 1952 in Ankara, Turkey, to diplomat parents,...
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Chris Salewicz, Author . Faber and Faber $27 (420p) ISBN 978-0-86547-999-9
The usual tropes of pop stardom attain a mythic resonance in this lively biography of the Jamaican reggae demigod. Journalist Salewicz (Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer
) draws an earnest portrait of Marley: his Rastafarian creed—he
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Chris Salewicz, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (263p) ISBN 978-0-312-52369-5
Beginning and ending with memories of Mary McCartney, this adequate but far from definitive biography of her son Paul suggests that her death from cancer in 1956 was the crucial event and inspiration in the life and work of ""the most often imitated
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Chris Salewicz. Da Capo, $30 (528p) ISBN 978-0-306-84538-3
Salewicz (Bob Marley) sketches an exciting portrait of the rise to fame of Led Zeppelin guitarist and songwriter Jimmy Page. Salewicz takes readers through Page’s childhood in 1950s Feltham, England, where he picked up a Spanish guitar when he was...
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