Keith Moon: A vida e a morte de uma lenda do rock

by Tony Fletcher

A ÉPICA BIOGRAFIA DO MAIS LOUCO DOS ROCK KEITH MOON, O LENDÁRIO BATERISTA DO THE WHO. Uma das melhores biografias de rock de todos os tempos. Este livro traça a notável jornada de Keith Moon com uma precisão aguda, de sua infância na classe trabalhadora do noroeste de Londres, passando pelos anos de glória do The Who, até a vida boa na Califórnia e uma morte triste e prematura. Viveu a mil por hora e por isso é reconhecido como um dos personagens mais selvagens do rock. Ao pesquisar uma história hoje distorcida por mitos de depravação e anarquia cômica, Tony Fletcher entrevistou mais de 120 amigos, familiares, companheiros de banda, empresários e afins. O resultado é um retrato pessoal e pungente de um garoto totalmente incorrigível, porém de uma generosidade única, que nunca cresceu, e que mudou as vidas de todos os que o conheceram. O primeiro e único Keith Moon.

1116 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 9, 2021

About the author

Tony Fletcher is the author of seven non-fiction books and one novel.  His biography of drummer Keith Moon  has been named in many a Best Music Book list, and his biography of R.E.M., updated in 2013 as Perfect Circle,  has been published in over half a dozen countries.   A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Saga of The Smiths was published in the UK by William Heinemann in September 2012, and by Crown Archetype in the USA in December 2012, with paperback editions following in the corresponding months of 2013. A memoir of his South London schooldays,  Boy About Town , was published in the UK by William Heinemann in July 2013, and is now available as a paperback in both the USA and UK through Windmill Books/Cornerstone Press.

Fletcher gained his entry into music journalism by founding a fanzine at his London school in 1977; by the time Jamming! ceased publication in 1986, it was selling 30,000 copies a month. Along the way he interviewed the likes of Pete Townshend, Paul McCartney, Paul Weller and U2, as well as dozens of up-and-coming, predominantly independent post-punk acts.

A contributor over the years to a multitude of magazines, newspapers, radio and television shows, primarily in the UK and USA, Fletcher now lives with his family on a mountaintop near the village of Woodstock in New York State. There he runs, skis, maintains his web site www.ijamming.net, serves on his local school board, and plays Hammond B-3 and Rickenbacker in the Catskill 45s, a group that only performs songs from 45 calendar years ago.

Reviews

[Felipe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ótima biografia. Além de destrinchar a vida de Keith Moon, sempre trás o contexto histórico da época e suas mudanças comportamentais.