Rock and Hard Places: Travels to Backstages, Frontlines and Assorted Sideshows - Softcover

Mueller, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1905792093 ISBN 13: 9781905792092

Publisher: Foruli Limited, 2012

Synopsis

Andrew Mueller is Australian by birth, Londoner by choice, wanderer by nature, and journalist by profession. Unable to decide between being a rock critic, travel writer, or foreign correspondent, he hit upon the novel, if time-consuming, solution of trying to be all three at once.

In Rock and Hard Places, a collection of Mueller’s best journalism from the early nineties to the present, he travels to Lebanon with the Prodigy, comes to America with Radiohead, and roams all over the place with U2. He ventures to Bosnia during the war, sees Def Leppard play in a cave in Morocco, attempts to ask the Taliban what they think they’re up to and takes his own country band on tour to Albania. He visits Tupelo, Mississippi, where the greatest of American entertainers was born, and Branson, Missouri, where the rest of them go to die. He ventures into radioactive Chernobyl, sloshes miserably through the mud at Woodstock II, wakes up at least once in a park in Reykjavik, flies the world’s least commercially sensible air route and strongly advises avoiding the seafood salad in Sapporo Airport. He’s funny. Occasionally, he makes a point.

“The best foreign correspondent of his generation.” — PJ O’ROURKE

“It’s not that he likes to be lost, it’s just that he likes the company of the lost.” — BONO

About this title

About the Author

Andrew Mueller was born in Australia and is a London-based foreign correspondent, travel writer, rock critic, and author who has covered mishap, misadventure, and mayhem in more than seventy countries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Foruli Limited
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1905792093
• ISBN 13: 9781905792092
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 360