This Thing Called Life Prince's Odyssey, on and Off the Record

Name: This Thing Called Life
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: Neal Karlen

Auteur: Neal Karlen

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Neal Karlen

Engels
Hardcover
9781250135247
06 oktober 2020
352 pagina's

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A warm and surprisingly real-life biography, featuring never-before-seen photos, of one of rocks greatest talents: Prince.

Neal Karlen was the only journalist Prince granted in-depth press interviews to for over a dozen years, from before Purple Rain to when the artist changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph. Karlen interviewed Prince for three Rolling Stone cover stories, wrote 3 Chains o Gold, Princes rock video opera, as well as the stars last testament, which may be buried with Princes will underneath Princes vast and private compound, Paisley Park.

According to Prince's former fiancée Susannah Melvoin, Karlen was the only reporter who made Prince sound like what he really sounded like. Karlen quit writing about Prince a quarter-century before the mega-star died, but he never quit Prince, and the two remained friends for the last thirty-one years of the superstars life.

Well before they met as writer and subject, Prince and Karlen knew each other as two of the gang of kids who biked around Minneapoliss mostly-segregated Northside. (They played basketball at the Dairy Queen next door to Karlens grandparents, two blocks from the budding musician.) He asserts that Prince cant be understood without first understanding 70s Minneapolis, and that even Princes best friends knew only 15 percent of him: that was all he was willing and able to give, no matter how much he cared for them.

Going back to Prince Rogers Nelson's roots, especially his contradictory, often tortured, and sometimes violent relationship with his father, This Thing Called Life profoundly changes what we know about Prince, and explains him as no biography has: a superstar who calls in the middle of the night to talk, who loved The Wire and could quote from every episode of The Office, who frequented libraries and jammed spontaneously for local crowds (and fed everyone pancakes afterward), who was lonely but craved being alone. Readers will drive around Minneapolis with Prince in a convertible, talk about movies and music and life, and watch as he tries not to curse, instead dishing a healthy dose of mamma jammas.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 oktober 2020
Aantal pagina's: 352
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Neal Karlen
Hoofduitgeverij: St. Martin's Press

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 155 mm
Product hoogte: 33 mm
Product lengte: 241 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 162 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 33 mm
Verpakking lengte: 243 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 1081 g

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EAN: 9781250135247

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Categorieën: Kunst & Fotografie

Biografieën & Waargebeurd

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Muziek

Componisten & Songwriters

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Muzikanten, zangers & Groepen

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Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Stroming of stijl: Rock
Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar

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not another bio!
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Goed boek, volledig vanuit andere kant beschreven op basis van goede interviews tussen 1985 en 2016!!

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