Alex James Over the Rainbow review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het boek van de bassist van de band Blur. Op 5 december 2024 verschijnt bij Particular Books de memoir en het muziekboek van Ales James. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Alex James Over the Rainbow review, recensie en informatie
- “Alex James is a witty, engaging guide to the mad goings-on behind the scenes of Britpop. Blur’s bassist famously estimates that he blew around £1m on champagne and cocaine during the Nineties. Here’s how.” (Independent)
- “A joy to read. Prose flows and weaves and curls itself into pleasing rhythms … Alex James can write like a god.” (Spectator)
Over the Rainbow
Tales from an Unexpexted Year
- Auteur: Alex James (Engeland)
- Soort boek: memoir, muziekboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Particular Books
- Verschijnt: 5 december 2024
- Omvang: 192 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van het boek van Alex James de bassist van Blur
A raucous, behind-the-scenes account of the year Blur got back together.
There is nothing that can touch the sound made by a close-knit group of people who have been playing together for years and years and years, playing as though their lives depended on it. For many years, all our lives did, and actually, I’d suddenly realised, they did still.
One winter’s night, Alex James received an unexpected call. Blur had been invited to play their biggest gig ever: Wembley Stadium. The only trouble was, he and his bandmates hadn’t spoken to – or even shouted at – each other for years. And he now had five children, an out-of-control menagerie of cats, and a sprawling farm to run.
This is the story of what happened next. Taking us behind the scenes of a raucous, rollercoaster year, Alex describes how the band made a surprise – and emotional – return, recording an acclaimed album and playing sold-out shows around the world, from Colchester to Colombia and beyond. Plus: how he went on a crash diet to fit back into his ‘Britpop Trousers,’ somehow organised an entire festival of his own, and tried to perfect the recipe for a giant Frazzle.
Over the Rainbow is a heartfelt and hilarious account of what it feels like to be catapulted back into the limelight with one of the world’s biggest bands. It is a love letter to Blur, to friendship and to music. And it shows us all that, however old – or hungover – we might feel, nothing’s ever truly over: it’s always just the start of the next thing.
Alex James (21 November 1968, Boscombe, Bournemouth, England) is a writer, farmer, and the bass player with Blur. He lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and five children.
Denis Michiels – De Hit Encyclopedie
Schrijver: Peter van Ingen (Nederland)
