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There Goes Gravity: A Life In Rock And Roll (2014)

by Lisa Robinson(Favorite Author)

3.17 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1594487146 (ISBN13: 9781594487149)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: I was so looking forward to reading this. So disappointed after reading it. I think it would work better as individual articles in a magazine than all together in book form. I did read an excerpt in Vanity Fair so I thought I would enjoy reading the whole book. Not so much. I felt it was disjointed and all over the place at times and then a bit boring at other times. I started to think that maybe she forgot she had a book to write and wrote out as much as she could while trying to remember everything off the top of her head and it all got blurred together. I know it must be exhausting interviewing all those famous people and I'm sure it's hard to remember all the names but you can certainly look the names up or just use the bands name. I'm referring to The Police. She... more referred to them as "Sting and the other two from the Police". Really? I'll admit the only other one I could recall offhand was Stewart Copeland so I looked up the third member - Andy Summers. See? Not so hard. Didn't even take me a minute. Maybe a little fact checking wouldn't have hurt either. She wrote about U2 - "not one member has been tossed out of a nightclub or arrested for drugs, gun possession or punching a photographer". That bit about being arrested for drugs? I know it was just marijuana but Adam Clayton was arrested for possessing a small amount of it once. I guess I should give her credit for not referring to U2 as Bono, Edge and the other two.
review 2: I don't know what I was expecting from this book, but There Goes Gravity didn't deliver. This author was interviewed on television and her description of her book sounded interesting. I enjoy the old rock songs because their lyrics said something, unlike the "umbrella-ella-ella" lyrics of today. Also, the lives they lived were nothing like my safe, traditional world, which was equally intriguing. Still, I found the book disappointing.If you've ever talked at length on the phone with someone and have someone ask you later, "Who was that and what did you talk about?" to which you respond, "Nothing." That would be how I would describe this book. It went on for several pages about nothing, really. There was much name-dropping, often with six or more familiar names in a single sentence, which was distracting. The most shocking thing in the book was learning that Michael Jackson had an authoritative voice when speaking with producers and not the high-willowy one with which we're familiar. The other "Oh really?" moment was when U2's Bono said, in the late 80s, that he was not a politician or a prophet. Other than those two things, I could have had much more intellectual discourse on the telephone. All in all, it was a nice read, but only worth three stars. less

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