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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (8 Dec 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 082641771X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0826417718
  • Product Dimensions: 16.7 x 12.2 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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'A brilliant series of pocket-sized books focussing on a classic album. Each one a work of real love.' --NME Magazine

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"Music From Big Pink" is a factional novella: a place where fictional characters rub shoulders with real people, and where actual documented events thread their way through the text alongside imagined scenarios. Through the eyes of twenty-three-year-old Greg Keltner, drug dealer, wannabe musician, and hanger-on, we witness the gestation and birth of an album that will go on to cast its spell across forty years. John Niven brings these characters to life with remarkable skill, and the result is an exhilarating, vivid, and powerfully moving book about the highs - and lows - of creating musical history.
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No doubting it, The Band were musical alchemists. Niven has written a novella inspired by listening to one of the greatest and most moving albums ever created. Members of The Band, mainly Richard Manuel and Rick Danko, are introduced to us through factual occurrances and imagined scenarios where the main character Greg is drawn into their circle of friends and hangers-on.

I am impressed by the merging of the real and imagined scenes: The mercurial, troubled Manuel is brought back to us in the prose and dialogue, and through references to his beautiful voice and songwriting on the Big Pink LP. If this book acheives anything for readers unfamiliar with The Band, it will move them to buy a copy of the remastered CD, or maybe even search out an original gatefold copy of the album.

A powerful, insightful and clever piece of writing.

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Not Niven at his best 16 Dec 2011
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I haven't read any of these 33 1/3 series... I only read it because I love John Niven's writing. At first I presumed there must be two authors of the same name because this was totally different from his other books. I have to say I missed his whit and found the characters quite bland and there was no plot to speak of. However, it was only afterwards I learned about the context of this series and it kind've made sense. If you're a bit of a 60's music nerd, then I guess it'd be quite enjoyable. Read it if you're a fan of the series and want to get a feel of the whole 60's 'vibe'... but John Niven at his best?... no.
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Nice One Mr. Niven 13 Aug 2009
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Having adored Kill Your Friends, and appreciated The Amateurs, it seemed only fair to read Mr. Niven's 1st offering, Music from Big Pink, and disappointed I was not. This guy can really write. I found this book highly emotive and the fact and fiction most skilfully married. He seems to have completely, and I'm not quite sure how, captured the essence of the period. One feels privileged to be part of it, and genuinely moved when everybody moves on.

Well done Mr. Niven. Now could we please have the further adventures of Mr. Stelfox? He could and should be the Harry Flashman of the future.
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