Review
'Cream bassist Jack Bruce has revealed he saved the life of Ginger Baker when the drummer overdosed on heroin following the band's 1967 Top of the Pops debut...Bruce told Harry Shapiro, who interviewed him for the upcoming biography, Jack Bruce: Composing Himself, that he and Clapton were concerned when Baker failed to meet them after the show. He said: "I went back into the dressing room and found Ginger stretched out on a narrow wooden bench. He was green and he was rattling. I knew immediately he'd overdosed."...'
--Daily Express, January 11, 2010
'Old rock stars never mellow, they just carry on fighting...Composing Himself, an official biography that Bruce has written with the blues writer Harry Shapiro... It's a story which traces the British rock-star arc; a loner in post-war Britain in seduced by the sexual and consumerist glamour of America and sets out to secure a reliable supply of both via music. Singing was his way in; even with Cream, Bruce's soulful, honeyed Glaswegian tones were his trademark...'
--The Sunday Times/Times online, February 14, 2010
--Daily Express, January 11, 2010
'Old rock stars never mellow, they just carry on fighting...Composing Himself, an official biography that Bruce has written with the blues writer Harry Shapiro... It's a story which traces the British rock-star arc; a loner in post-war Britain in seduced by the sexual and consumerist glamour of America and sets out to secure a reliable supply of both via music. Singing was his way in; even with Cream, Bruce's soulful, honeyed Glaswegian tones were his trademark...'
--The Sunday Times/Times online, February 14, 2010
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