Books by Howard Sounes
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review 1: Seemed like a pretty thorough biography. Pleasant read, unlike some bios. I already knew much of what had been written, but enjoyed the bits about the relies and the small group of hardcore fans he's had from the beginning. Although his best music came during THE BEATLES era, as...
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review 1: It starts and ends with Amy Winehouse. Not because she's the most talented of the artists profiled, or the most prolific. Far from it. She's simply the most recent high-profile example of a chain of events that most closely resembles a slow-motion train wreck. Rooted in a prodigi...
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review 1: The lives of the six principal members of the "27 club" (Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse) are told in a clear-eyed but still sympathetic way. He dispels a lot of the myths that have grown up. I don't believe his contention that...