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That stanza involves suitors and a bridegroom. Whether Maria's omission is inadvertent, or is done consciously merely to save herself embarrassment, we can only conjecture. The song does serve to link the elderly spinster with the young Eveline from the story of the same name: Eveline is about to cast away a prospective marriage with Frank in favor of a life of single drudgery in Dublin. This is one of the many ways that Joyce links the stories in Dubliners. This piece may very well have been the inspiration for Joyce's short story "Araby," which is part of Dubliners.

Indeed, the story does refer to an actual fair that took place in Dublin in May But Joyce did know and utilize the song of the same name in Finnegans Wake , and its lyrics completely fit the courtly love motif upon which the short story is based. At the end of the story, the adolescent protagonist finds himself in a darkened hall with all his dreams of Araby and Eastern enchantment dashed. This piece is referred to in "The Dead," the last story of Dubliners , whose Mr.

Nevertheless, the song is a part of the death metaphor that runs throughout the story. A careful glance at the drawing reveals that, poking out of Joyce's back pocket, is the sheet music for this song. Song in James Joyce's Works: Selected Songs About the Concert: Music in Dubliners Compared to his later works, music in this collection of short stories by James Joyce plays a relatively peripheral role in the action of the narratives. He wasn't having any of it and this book wryly details his heroic underachievement, from missing out on the Mercury Music Prize to splitting the band in favour of the impenetrable Baader Meinhof, who flirted with terrorist imagery.

A cautionary, yet hilarious tale.

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But it's more than that - Cavanagh plots the heyday of British indie, back when it truly was independent and its rise and fall during the Britpop years. Some amazing tales and a reminder of some great, underrated bands. The Kinks frontman wrote his autobiography in the third person as a colourful piece of semi-fact, semi-fiction.

You get some degree of the personal experience of being in the band, but the rest is a bizarre and entertaining extended Davies song. Goldman was pilloried when this biography hit the shelves: But, once you realise that Lennon basically admitted to all of the above when he was alive anyway, this huge work pays off with some incredible research and detail, even though Goldman pitches everything towards showing John in the worst light possible.

Things actually hit their stride once The Beatles are history - the chapters on Yoko's bid for solo stardom, the radical New York years and Lennon's final days in the Dakota are priceless, but take them with a pinch of salt. Not that Factory Records ever published any sleeve notes, of course.

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Ostensibly the book of Michael Winterbottom's film about the rise and fall of Manchester's most famous label, this spirals into a colourful, idiosyncratic and eloquent autobiography of Wilson, adding many more layers to the tale. Find out more about Tony's years in crap local TV, his aborted attempt to become a "serious" journalist, his tribulations with bands like A Certain Ratio and The Durutti Column, and the financial car crash that was The Hacienda.

Wilson is sorely missed, but this is his definitive statement. I'm a minor character in my own story. This is about the music and the people who made the music. The dark side of rock, as written by Motley Crue's bassist. As an appendix to The Dirt, this is pretty bleak stuff, but you have to admire Nikki's honesty. Still not a Broadway musical.

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The tale of how recorded music went from wax cylinders to the MP3 may sound like a dry read, but if you're interested in how the songs get from the musicians' brains to your earholes, this is a surprisingly accessible account. Milner looks at the hype involved with the launch of the CD, the format wars between 33 and 45 speeds and how Phil Collins got that In The Air Tonight drum sound.

It's also a reminder of how nothing has really changed an enormous amount in terms of how the music biz works in the past years. How does Brian Warner become Marilyn Manson?

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This autobiography tells you how suburban alienation can make millions. Along the way, there are hideous anecdotes of debauchery, all rendered in Manson's wry style.

Young journalist Booth weaselled his way onto the crew of the Stones' big comeback tour of the States in and inadvertently found himself present at one of the most terrifying rock shows of all time: The road to the infamous open air show in December in which a fan was stabbed to death by Hell's Angels is paved with the Stones getting used to playing live again after a two year hiatus. As reportage goes, it's one of the best.

One of rock's most intelligent characters produces a worthy, but readable tome on the nature of tuneage. The former Talking Heads frontman covers everything from the prehistory of music, through to how contracts are written, how to set up your own nightclub and how to use MIDI. There are some juicy biographical notes, too. Lewisohn is the undisputed king of Beatles research and his latest project is set to supersede all his previous books on the band.

This first instalment looks at the Fab Four's formative years in Liverpool and Hamburg and includes a whole stack of new information. This is set to be the definitive word on the subject. The extended version is hundreds of thousands of words longer and still only gets up to their first single! Tolhurst was the original drummer, then keyboard player with The Cure, having gone to school with frontman Robert Smith. Brutally honest, this is a moving story of rock redemption. Bangs was a rock journo from the old school, writing for NME and Creem and this is a collection of some of his most incisive essays, published five years after his death..


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Influential in many ways. The bassmeister tells his story of working with disco legends Chic, plus all the Studio 54 hedonism that brought along although it didn't stop him getting turned away from the super club one time. The definitive book on the whole punk phenomenon, Savage plots the history of the movement via the central protagonist Malcolm McLaren, from his time as an art student in the lates, briefly managing the New York Dolls in the early s to mashing together fetish clothing with 50s-styled garage rock in the shape of the Sex Pistols.

Some of the chapters are artfully obtuse, but the central story is gripping.

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Rollins is a seasoned practitioner of the spoken word, but his memoir of his days as the singer in hardcore punk pioneers Black Flag is a compelling read. It takes in Rollins' induction into the righteous band under the watchful eye of leader Greg Ginn and their constant battle with the police, plus their horrendous tour of the UK in Not glamorous at all, but fascinating. Also available as a talking book. Monk was fortunate or unfortunate, depending on your point of view to be part of the crew that took the Sex Pistols on their one and only tour of the US in January Teenage punks from London and Southern cowboys inevitably don't mix peacefully and the resulting aggravation is a major part of this grimly hilarious account.

The man himself penned the first part of his trilogy of memoirs in and we're still waiting on the second part.

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The initial volume looks at his arrival in New York in and offers up some excellent detail on his key albums of the period. Teenage Sugerman was on the LA scene in the late s and ended up being mentored by none other than Jim Morrison. Danny comes home one afternoon to find the Igster unconscious with the fridge on top of him. Sugerman's answer is to drive Iggy into the desert and leave him there. It's a slightly cynical, yet humorous look at how to sell out in the most calculated way possible and actually worked for one band: One of the most notorious rock biographies ever written, the band themselves were taken aback by the tales of hedonism and debauchery, claiming all the stories came from a resentful ex-tour manager, Richard Cole.

Nevertheless, this set the template for the outrageous rock biog: We're not saying any more. Azerrad powers through 13 brief but informative biographies of some of the key bands in US indie following the explosive arrival of the Sex Pistols on American shores in Inspirational and full of great anecdotes, dysfunctional behaviour and genuine punk rock, it will make you want to form your own band. As guitarist with the all-girl punk band The Slits, Albertine gives a unique look at the punk explosion of the late s from a female perspective.

The ideal follow-up to England's Dreaming, Reynolds follows John Lydon's progress after the Sex Pistols implode, with the foundation of Public Image Ltd and all the other bands that followed in their wake. The punk poet tells her story of the artists and musicians at a time of incredible creativity, namely New York in the mids.

Her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe forms the backbone of the tale and is told in prose that's like one of Smith's songs. Your privacy is important to us. We want to better help you understand how and why we use your data. View our Privacy Statement for more details. We also use cookies on the site for personalisation, analytics and ads.