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A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage (Paperback)

by Joe Jackson (Author) "I WAS BORN in August 1954 in Burton-on-Trent and spent the first year of my life nearby in a place called Swadlincote, on the border..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc (12 Oct 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0306810018
  • ISBN-13: 978-0306810015
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 889,735 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Now in paperback: The candid, inspiring memoir of becoming a musician by the renowned composer and pop star.. Since the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a famously private person, whose lack of interest in his own celebrity has been interpreted by some as aloofness. That reputation is shattered by A Cure for Gravity , Jackson's enormously funny and revealing memoir of growing up musical, from a culturally impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, through London's Punk and New Wave scenes, up to the brink of pop stardom. Jackson describes his life as a teenage Beethoven fanatic; his early piano gigs for audiences of glass-throwing skinheads; and his days on the road with long-forgotten club bands. Far from a standard-issue celebrity autobiography, A Cure for Gravity is a smart, passionate book about music, the creative process, and coming of age as an artist.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Bought for a present, 5 Oct 2009
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This was bought as a present for a close friend. It was needed at short notice. Delivered on time and in excellent condition. I have read my own copy of the book three times and found it enjoyable and enlightening.

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