Moral Clarity - A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

Informationen zum Autor Colin Grant is an author, historian and critic. He has written acclaimed biographies of the Wailers and of Marcus Garvey. Bageye at the Wheel , his memoir of growing up in a Caribbean family in 1970s Luton, was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize. His history of epilepsy, A Smell of Burning , was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. His most recent book, Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation , was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year. He is director of WritersMosaic and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Klappentext A trio of Trench Town R&B crooners, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley, swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers - one of the most influential groups in popular music. This title charts their complex relationship, their fluctuating fortunes, and musical peak. Zusammenfassung A trio of Trench Town R&B crooners, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley, swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers - one of the most influential groups in popular music. This title charts their complex relationship, their fluctuating fortunes, and musical peak.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Colin Grant, Susan Neiman
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 26.01.2012
• EAN: 9780099526728
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952672-8
• Pagine: 336
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Reggae, Music, MUSIC / General, Reggae and Ska, Popular Music