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This week we are giving away three music biographies with the Guardian and the Observer.
On Friday in the Guardian is John Lennon: The Life - Volume 1 by Philip Norman. Read by Russell Boulter, Norman draws on previously untapped sources and has access to all the major characters, compiling the most complete and revealing portrait of John Lennon that has ever been published.
On Saturday in the Guardian is The Story of the Streets written and read by Mike Skinner. In this thoroughly modern memoir, the man the Guardian once dubbed "half Dostoevsky . . . half Samuel Pepys" tells a freewheeling, funny and fearlessly honest tale of Birmingham and London, ecstasy and epilepsy, Twitter-fear and Spectrum joysticks, spread-betting and growing up. He writes of his musical inspirations, role models and rivals, the craft of songwriting and reflects on the successes and failures of the decade-long journey of the Streets.You can also read an interview with Mike Skinner here.
Finally, on Sunday in the Observer, there is The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth, read by Adrian Mulraney. Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones' inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1969. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway - a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation's dreams of peace and freedom.
On Friday in the Guardian is John Lennon: The Life - Volume 1 by Philip Norman. Read by Russell Boulter, Norman draws on previously untapped sources and has access to all the major characters, compiling the most complete and revealing portrait of John Lennon that has ever been published.
On Saturday in the Guardian is The Story of the Streets written and read by Mike Skinner. In this thoroughly modern memoir, the man the Guardian once dubbed "half Dostoevsky . . . half Samuel Pepys" tells a freewheeling, funny and fearlessly honest tale of Birmingham and London, ecstasy and epilepsy, Twitter-fear and Spectrum joysticks, spread-betting and growing up. He writes of his musical inspirations, role models and rivals, the craft of songwriting and reflects on the successes and failures of the decade-long journey of the Streets.You can also read an interview with Mike Skinner here.
Finally, on Sunday in the Observer, there is The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones by Stanley Booth, read by Adrian Mulraney. Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones' inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool in 1969. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway - a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation's dreams of peace and freedom.
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