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Monday, 21 November 2011 14:40
Digitally Remastered Edition of "No One Here Gets Out Alive"
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Plexus are set to release a digitally remastered edition of No One Here Gets Out Alive. A former New York Times number-one bestseller, this acclaimed biography of Doors singer Jim Morrison was adapted by director Oliver Stone for his 1991 film The Doors, which starred Val Kilmer as Morrison.
Written by Jerry Hopkins, a veteran Rolling Stone journalist and author who interviewed Morrison on multiple occasions, and Danny Sugerman, a long-time confidant of Morrison’s, No One Here Gets Out Alive is the definitive account of Morrison’s life and death, and upon its original publication in 1980 was the first music biography ever to become an international bestseller. There are now more than two million copies of the book in print.
As well as an updated Discography and Film and Book lists, the forthcoming digitally remastered edition of the book features restored and enhanced photographs, a new Foreword by Danny Sugerman, an Epilogue by Jerry Hopkins and an Afterword by poet Michael McClure (who was a good friend of Morrison’s during his lifetime).
For a more detailed description of the book, see below:
Jim Morrison — singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent — is here in all his complexity, the brilliant and the obsessive disciple of darkness who rejected authority and probed ‘the bounds of reality to see what would happen’. Jim Morrison was lead singer of the Doors, one of the most popular and controversial rock groups of the late sixties.
Worshipped by the fans, hated by the establishment, hounded by the media, Morrison stood for all the unpredictable and forbidden excitement that youth dreamed of. No One Here Gets Out Alive strips bare the facts from the fantasies of his life and mysterious death in Paris in 1971, exposing the myth-maker who was both hailed as a poet of the counter culture and reviled as a corruptor of youth.
The authors are uniquely qualified to write this modern tragedy; Jerry Hopkins is an experienced rock writer and author of the best-selling Presley biography Elvis, Daniel Sugerman is a long-time Doors expert and a confidant of Jim Morrison during the singer’s lifetime. Together they tell the story of a reckless genius who shot like a rocket through the musical sky and fell into burning fragments as his life finally went out of control.
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Friday, 04 November 2011 10:52
A Sneak Peak Inside "Amy Winehouse: A Losing Game"
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Click on the above image for a sneak peak inside Amy Winehouse: A Losing Game by Mick O'Shea. You can pre-order the book from Amazon here.
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Tuesday, 01 November 2011 13:43
Amy Winehouse: Announcement of Posthumous Album and Publication of "Amy Winehouse: A Losing Game"
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It has been announced that Island Records will release a posthumous album of Amy Winehouse material, entitled Lioness: Hidden Treasures, on 5 December 2011. Comprising cover versions, demos, new songs, and reinterpretations of previously released material, the album features 12 tracks chosen by Winehouse's long-time producers and collaborators Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson, and according to her label is "faithful to her legacy".
One of the new tracks, "Between the Cheats", described by the Guardian as a "big and brassy song", is thought to be about her ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil. "Tears Dry" a slowed-down version of the Back to Black-era single "Tears Dry on Their Own", sees Amy make “a direct connection with the listener”, according to Remi. While “Like Smoke” a collaboration with New York rapper Nas, and “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow”, a cover of the ’60s Shirelles classic, are also featured.
Amy Winehouse: A Losing Game, a richly illustrated biography of Winehouse by Mick O’Shea, is forthcoming from Plexus. You can pre-order the book from Amazon here. A more detailed description of the book can be read below:
Pint-sized, acid-tongued and velvet-voiced, Amy Winehouse was more than just the Queen of Camden. Within an industry of pretenders, Amy was the ‘real deal’ – a uniquely gifted artist who remained true to herself till the end. Channelling the soulful divas of the 1960s, her timeless anthems of heartbreak – laced with a healthy dose of the songstresses’s own street-smart sass – touched the hearts and minds of millions.
Laying bare drunken misadventures, her rocky romance with Blake Fielder-Civil and the deepening addiction she simply couldn’t seem to shake, Amy’s brutally honest lyrics won her hearts and awards alike. Yet, as sales of Back to Black (the stunning sophomore album that made her a star) soared, the deadly excess that fuelled her talent was threatening to consume it once and for all. By July 2011, it seemed Amy had turned a corner, determined to stay clean for the sake of all those who loved her. The world waited eagerly for Amy’s comeback album – only to be cruelly disappointed. Newly in love with life, Amy died before this final recording ever saw the light of day. She was just 27 years old.
In this richly illustrated biography, Mick O’Shea delves into every aspect of Amy’s life – from childhood through to her tragic early death – capturing the legacy of her raw and heartfelt music, along with everything that made her so very special.
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