My Rock 'n' Roll Friend (Signed 1st Edition)

Tracey Thorn

ISBN 10: 1786898225 / ISBN 13: 9781786898227

Published by Canongate, 2021

About this Item

Black boards with lettering to spine. Firm binding. Clean pages. The Jacket is not price clipped. Signed by the author to a publishers bookplate fixed to the half title page. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My Rock 'n' Roll Friend (Signed 1st Edition)
• Publisher: Canongate
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786898225
• ISBN 13: 9781786898227
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed By Author

About this title

Synopsis

In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by gossip and feminism, books and gigs and rock 'n' roll love affairs.

Morrison - a headstrong heroine blazing her way through a male-dominated industry - came to be a kind of mentor to Thorn. They shared the joy and the struggle of being women in a band, trying to outwit and face down a chauvinist music media.

In My Rock 'n' Roll Friend Thorn takes stock of thirty-seven years of friendship, teasing out the details of connection and affection between two women who seem to be either complete opposites or mirror images of each other. This important book asks what people see, who does the looking, and ultimately who writes women out of - and back into - history.

About the Author

Tracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She was born and grew up as the youngest of three children in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where she learned the piano, enjoyed underaged drinking, and started her first band while still at school.

Since then, she has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles and two books, including the Sunday Times bestselling memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen, and currently writes a column for theNew Statesman. She lives in London, with her husband Ben Watt and their three children.

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