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There's Something About Jonathan : Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers (Paperback)
by Tim Mitchell (Author)

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Paperback: 212 pages
Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd (1 Jan 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0720610761
ISBN-13: 978-0720610765
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.1 x 1.8 cm

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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 185,280 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Lou Reed
'I love Jonathan Richman. There's something about Jonathan'

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A biography of the eccentric, influential and unique American musician, Jonathan Richman, best known as the author of hits such as 'Roadrunner' and 'Egyptian Reggae'.

Cited as a major influence by people as diverse as the Sex Pistols, REM, Cornershop, Lightning Seeds and Pulp and with celebrity fans like Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman is a seminal artist whose career has spanned three decades. He has also gone from early involvement in the Andy Warhol scene in the late sixties to hanging out with people as diverse as the Velvet Underground and Gram Parsons, from proto-punk hero in the mid-seventies to cult troubadour in the eighties and latterly, to big-screen stardom in the hit film, There's Something About Mary.

Contains previously unseen photos and a select discography

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Great book on a great artist, 18 Oct 1999

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I've just read a book in one sitting . I read it on a train ride from Gothenburg to Stockholm ( through what Bill Bryson,after having travelled the same route, quite unjustly described as "the never ending pine forest that is Sweden" ). It was Tim Mitchell's book "There's something about Jonathan" and I must admit that I loved it.

I've been a huge fan of Jonathan for 22 years or so, and I thought that I knew the story, but I learned a lot from this book. Interesting things that I haven't seen anywhere else, like information on Jonathan's childhood. And real fascinating jiggzaw pussle-bits that explains things I have wondered about, like the information that Glen Matlock, Steve Jones and Paul Cook actually had access to and listened intensively to a tape of The Modern Lovers John Cale-sessions long before that was available on record and while they were still a proto-Sex Pistols. Lots of things like that actually, and in the form of the first thorough "Life and letters of Jonathan Richman" that gives both the chronology and deals more in detail with the music and the songs.

To me, who has been listening closely to this man's music for the best part of my adult life, it was very interesting to read someone else's thoughts about the songs and the man.Parts of this book rises way above a "rock-biography" and becomes an essay on artistic honesty and on loneliness, among other things.Sometimes when you read about what Jonathan has done and said ( like when he had the Modern Lovers do excercises before shows ), you think:"this man is weird, maybe even mad". And then you read about ,for example, his shows on children's hospitals, and you think:"The world could do with more madness like that".

The book is very well researched and written ,and has many fine photos. (Some of the early photos of the longhaired, quite hip-looking Modern Lovers, with that tiny litt