Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
A Memoir
(Sprache: Englisch)
One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a trailblazer and a legend. He created a new kind of music, mixing Black and white, male and female, funk and rock. As a songwriter, he penned some of the most iconic anthems of the 1960s and...
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One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a trailblazer and a legend. He created a new kind of music, mixing Black and white, male and female, funk and rock. As a songwriter, he penned some of the most iconic anthems of the 1960s and '70s, from "Everyday People" to "Family Affair." As a performer, he electrified audiences with a persona and stage presence that set a lasting standard for pop-culture performance.Yet his life has also been a cautionary tale, known as much for how he dropped out of the spotlight as for what put him there in the first place. People know the music, but the man remains a mystery. In Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), his much-anticipated memoir, he's finally ready to share his story-a story that many thought he'd never have the chance to tell.
Written with Ben Greenman, who has written memoirs with George Clinton and Brian Wilson, among others, and created in collaboration with Sly Stone's manager, Arlene Hirschkowitz, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) includes a foreword by Questlove.
Autoren-Porträt von Sly Stone
Sly Stone with Ben Greenman; Foreword by Questlove
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Sly Stone
- 2023, 320 Seiten, mit farbigen Abbildungen, Maße: 15,7 x 23,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan US
- ISBN-10: 0374606978
- ISBN-13: 9780374606978
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.10.2023
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
MOJO Magazine Book of the Year Sunday Times (London) Music Book of the Year
"It is difficult to convey how unlikely it is that this book exists. Sly Stone is one of pop music's truest geniuses and greatest mysteries . . . No one else has fully conjured the remarkable balance of virtuosity and universality, joy and pain . . . Thank You gives a strong sense of this giant's voice and sensibility."
-Alan LIght, The New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)
"A frisky, remarkably vivid and cogent account of [Sly Stone's] life and career . . . A full-fledged, surprisingly forthcoming and witty memoir . . . An amazing, epic story."
-Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle
"Thank You is a brisk, crackling tour through the highs and lows of Sly's life... It's a fascinating, revealing, and sometimes difficult read...an unusual, fitfully beautiful, and surprisingly emotional reading experience, and by its end I realized that it had left me with something previously unthinkable,
one more act of self-reinvention from a genius of American music."
-Jack Hamilton, Slate
"In Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin), Sly Stone recounts his career without shame, pity,
or biting his tongue, giving us the really real of his fruitful but chaotic life."
-Michael A Gonzales, The Wire (UK)
"Exquisite. "
-MOJO
"Frank [and] illuminating . . . Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) is a reclamation. Its reward: a centering of Stone's inimitable voice, a showcase for the flair with which he makes language dance."
-Lynell George, Alta
"[Thank You] overflows with wit and wordplay [and] vivid accounts from recording studios, concert stages and star-studded parties."
-Christopher Weber, Associated Press
"There's a lot to enjoy in [Thank You] . . . Accessible and charming . . . [Sly speaks] from the heart (with a certain cool reserve) while providing a time trip filled with melancholy, wit, and
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soul."
-Ellen Fagan, CultureSonar
"[Thank You] overflows with wit and wordplay . . . Fans will certainly appreciate the vivid accounts from recording studios, concert stages and star-studded parties."
-Christopher Weber, Associated Press
"[Stone's] memoir is a gift to fans, a forthright telling of his extraordinary rise from musical prodigy to genre-bending superstar, followed by a decline wrought by the intense pressure of success and heavy drug use . . . Stone's language is vibrant, laced with playful rhymes and clever turns of phrase . . . Thank You is as complicated and beautiful as Stone himself."
-Booklist (starred review)
"It's unadulterated, unapologetic Sly."
-Publishers Weekly
-Ellen Fagan, CultureSonar
"[Thank You] overflows with wit and wordplay . . . Fans will certainly appreciate the vivid accounts from recording studios, concert stages and star-studded parties."
-Christopher Weber, Associated Press
"[Stone's] memoir is a gift to fans, a forthright telling of his extraordinary rise from musical prodigy to genre-bending superstar, followed by a decline wrought by the intense pressure of success and heavy drug use . . . Stone's language is vibrant, laced with playful rhymes and clever turns of phrase . . . Thank You is as complicated and beautiful as Stone himself."
-Booklist (starred review)
"It's unadulterated, unapologetic Sly."
-Publishers Weekly
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