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Bringing It All Back Home (Hardcover)

by Robert Wyatt (Foreword), Ian Clayton (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Route Publishing; First edition (25 Jan 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1901927334
  • ISBN-13: 978-1901927337
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 384,819 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A magical roller coaster that unfurled beyond the confines of the fairground, looping and winding and soaring around time barriers, oceans and continents through every kind of weather.' --Robert Wyatt

The best read I've had all year, at times very funny, genuinely touching and always deeply personal. The perfect book for anyone who has defined their life through music and the memories of their youth.' --Joanne Harris

Ian Clayton is a warm, witty, funny, loving man and that shows in this brilliant compendium of true stories. This is a beautiful book, I think you will enjoy it whatever walk of life you are from. --Richard Hawley


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'Ian's book is of a piece with the man; generous, funny and wise. This is written with a tenderness that only the strongest can aspire to. He describes it, astutely, as the soundtrack to a life and the music embraces everything from half-forgotten music-hall songs to the outer limits of jazz, blues and folk. But beneath these sounds he hears the secret music of the common people - from the mining towns of Yorkshire to the Mississippi Delta - the joy of community and the devastation of loss and betrayal. The final chapter - about Billie Holiday Clayton - is the bravest piece of writing I've ever read. It is, as Lady Day sang, but beautiful.' Alan Plater
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Book of the year? I think so., 7 Nov 2007
By Jon Gilbert (North Yorkshire) - See all my reviews
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Ian writes in a way that is instantly familiar, within a few pages you'll feel like he's an old friend, and empathise with him through the stories he tells, both happy and sad. This is a book anyone can enjoy, I've bought 3 copies of it as presents so far, one for a Blues obsessed relative, one for my Mum who'll enjoy the stories of Yorkshire life and one for a friend who I just get the feeling will love the writing.

It's rare for a book to appeal on so many levels, music is why the book exists in the first place, but even if you don't like blues, or music in general, you'll find much enjoyment in the other aspects of the book, Yorkshire life, or indeed life in general, friendships, relationships, joy and loss are all dealt with in Ians inimitable style.

I could go on, but suffice to say, buy the book, enjoy it and tell your friends about it.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Bringing it all back home strickes a chord, 13 Nov 2007
By Alan D. Richmond "dave richmond" (wetherby) - See all my reviews
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I was not quite sure what to expect from Ian Clayton the author as opposed to the tv presenter. For a few minutes on screen, i'd always found him engaging and interesting, but for a whole book, that's quite a different matter.
What i found was a book of great warmth, a deeply personal book that gets under your skin, sparks off memories and has a direct emotional impact.
It's an autobiographical book about Ian, a book about music, a book about infatuations, growing and changing, about northern working class life. And whilst its about all of those things, its also much more universal then that. Many of the stories in the book resonated strongly, often the
context was different but the underlying experience very similiar.
This is a brilliant book, its got me reading again, and listening to music again, and its got me thinking a lot about my upbringing, my family,my kids and what really matters.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best music book of 2007 by a country mile, 27 Sep 2007
By A. Bartley "Chris Bartley" (Middlesbrough) - See all my reviews
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Everything reminds me of something. I have filled my
house and my head with things; books, records,
paintings, stories; souvenirs that have no meaning
except to me. Sometimes I think my house is my head
and my head has become my house.

Ian Clayton 'Bringing it all back home'

I am not normally a person who trots out superlatives
but I can honestly say Ian Clayton's book is one of
the best ever written about music. And 'Bringing it
all back home' will make sense to anyone who
understands the intrinsic value of collecting music
and savouring memories. We live in an age, where we
are constantly advised to get rid and de-junk our
homes (minds?) and Ian's book is a vindication that
holding on to things does matter and to treasure old
LP's is a perfectly normal and justifiable thing to
do.

It is always hard when you review a book not to give
to much away. I think ultimately you want people to
get hold of it and read it for themselves. Ian's book
is a very special thing indeed. Some books about music
are very cold and academic and leave the reader very
much on the outside. But Ian's book is funny, moving,
wise........all the things that we would expect really
from a Yorkshireman. The last chapter about the
tragic death of his daughter, Billie Holiday Clayton
is one of the moving passages I've ever read. I hope
I've said enough to make you want to get hold of this
book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Music to my ears
This is more than a book about music and life its breathtakingly moving and funny beyond believe, the imagery has you captured in its pages of wit and sincerity and transports you... Read more
Published 10 days ago by C. Jackson

5.0 out of 5 stars A truly great work.
Having just read this book for the second time it still has me amazed. What a honest and generous man Ian Clayton is to share his life via the pages of this book. Read more
Published 10 days ago by John Greaves

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding book about music and life
Bringing It All Back Home is undoubtedly one of the best autobiograhies of recent years with Ian Clayton's love of his native Yorkshire and of popular music beautifully observed... Read more
Published 2 months ago by KDM

5.0 out of 5 stars Great musical and personal journey
Bought this to take as holiday reading on a trip to the USA......as a Yorkshire lass felt immediately at home with the writer...... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Jean Robinson

5.0 out of 5 stars works for me.
Within a page or two of Ian Claytons book I was back in my childhood listening to our nextdoor neighbour Elsie telling my mother about her husbands diagnosis of diabetesn"Ernies... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. D. J. Wilmot

5.0 out of 5 stars Home Again
I bought this book to take on holiday with me to Corsica. The other book I bought was Peter Falk's collection of memories and anecdotes. Read more
Published 11 months ago by The Quiet Busker

5.0 out of 5 stars "People Try To Put Us Down... Talking About My Generation..."
As I cycle into work from the sunny Hawaiian splendiferousness of Walthamstow in East London to the glamour-fest of wee-wee in doorways that is Berwick Street in Central London,... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Mark Barry at Revival Records,...

4.0 out of 5 stars I read this in one sitting, something I've not done for many years
Ian Clayton is a storyteller. Simple as that. He tells a story in this book about why it is important to have family, friends and Featherstone. Read more
Published 14 months ago by M. R. Hill

5.0 out of 5 stars A Musical Adventure
Anyone whoever bought a gramophone record can identify with this marvellously witty book which has been carefully crafted by Ian Clayton. Read more
Published 14 months ago by T. Simpson

3.0 out of 5 stars A bit too YORKSHIRE...
I feel bad about only awarding this book three stars because most other people seem to like it so much and particularly after the tragic, heart-breaking ending. Read more
Published 15 months ago by G. E. Harrison

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