Here Comes Everybody: The Story of the Pogues
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (829 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556529503 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fearnley describes the coalescence of a disparate collection of vagabonds living in the squats of London’s Kings Cross, with, at its center, the charismatic MacGowan and his idea of turning Irish traditional music on its head. The Pogues injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music and gave the world the troubled, iconic, darkly romantic songwriter Shane MacGowan. With beauty, lyricism, and great candor, Fearnley tells the story of how the band watched helplessly as their singer descended into a dark and isolated world of drugs and alcohol, and sets forth the increasingly desperate measures they were forced to take.. Here Comes Everybody is a memoir written by founding member and accordion player James Fearnley, drawn from his personal experiences and the series of journals and correspondence he kept throughout the band’s career
The Pogues’ famously raucous live performances were balanced by their celebrated poetic storytelling. --June Sawyers . The level-headed Fearnley also recalls the band members’ poverty-stricken early years, their first “chaotic” gig at the Pindar of Wakefield in London in 1982, their British and Irish tours, their first time in America, and their contribution to the iconic punk movie, Sid and Nancy. Founding member and accordionist Fearnley begins his entertaining and rollicking memoir as MacGowan is booted from the group as a result of his fickle and increasingly odd behavior (he rejoined later). Some of their best songs reflected their Irish roots, including MacGowan’s “The Sick Bed of Cúchulainn” and “If I Should Fall from Grace with God” and guitarist Phil
Remarkably well-written and absorbing Rahul P. Kamath I'll start by saying this: I've read a lot of music books and memoirs. A LOT. And not just famous ones, weird crap like the autobiography by some random horn player from Three Dog Night, and that canonical 300 page book on "Louie Louie", so if I have some kind of authority on something in this world, I tend to think this is probably it. With that said, I believe this is one of the top 3 music books I've ever read (Nick Kent's "The Dark Stuff" is de. Bob Mamrak said Nicely done. This book surprised me. Not because I liked it; I knew I would. Having read Fearnley's Pogues reunion tour diaries I knew he could write, and his frank retelling of the Pogues' private moments captivates. What surprised me was Fearnley's use of, as he puts it, "the tools and sensibilities of a fiction writer." Fearnley was an aspiring writer before he joined the Pogues, telling founders MacGowan and Finer he would only join the band if it didn't in. Not just anecdotes Ziji I expected an interesting book -- the times and the band were pretty dramatic. But Fearnley's book goes beyond details about drinking and fighting, it gets into the music and the songs, revealing a complexity that I wasn't aware of in the songs (I'm not a musician). Fearnley's a good writer, and the book's a good read.