My Rock 'n' Roll Friend

'Entertaining, affectionate and righteous' Guardian
'Says so much about being a woman' Cosey Fanni Tutti

In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by gossip and feminism, books and gigs and rock 'n' roll love affairs.

Thorn takes stock of thirty-seven years of friendship, teasing out the details of connection and affection between two women who seem to be either complete opposites or mirror images of each other. She asks what people see, who does the looking, and ultimately who writes women out of - and back into - history.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Tracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She was born and grew up as the youngest of three children in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where she learned the piano, enjoyed underaged drinking, and started her first band while still at school.

Since then, she has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles and two books, including the Sunday Times bestselling memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen, and currently writes a column for theNew Statesman. She lives in London, with her husband Ben Watt and their three children.

@tracey_thorn | traceythorn.com

Zusammenfassung

An exploration of female friendship and women in music, from the iconic singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen

Vorwort

An exploration of female friendship and women in music, from the iconic singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen

Zusatztext

Must-read . . . writing shines with wit and philosophical insight

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tracey Thorn, Thorn Tracey
• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.04.2022
• EAN: 9781786898234
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-823-4
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Rock and Roll, Rock & Pop music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rock, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Biography: arts & entertainment, Feminism & feminist theory, Pop Music, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Biography: arts and entertainment, memoir; Everything but the girl; Marine Girls; coming-of-age; art and music; female friendship; lindy morrison; feminism; punk; agitprop; another planet; Bedsit Disco Queen; Naked at the Albert Hall