My Rock 'n' Roll Friend (Main)

Name: My Rock 'n' Roll Friend (Main)
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Review Quotes: I truly love this book. As a woman who's been in the music business over twenty-three years, I can relate to so much of it. Thorn's writing is...

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I truly love this book. As a woman who's been in the music business over twenty-three years, I can relate to so much of it. Thorn's writing is important and necessary, as I realise how much I need a book to do the looking from my side of things. But it's not just a rebalance from the bore of yet another blokey book about the music world, Thorn pulls you into the love, to the scenes, heart-stopping moments, as if you were right there, wired in to see the world her way . . . and it finally makes sense--KATHRYN WILLIAMS

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It's such a radical act - as well as loving one - for a woman to tell the story of her friend like this, and to free her (and all of us, it feels!) from the distorting prism of the male gaze. I honestly wanted to stand up and cheer!--MELISSA HARRISON

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As a singer-songwriter, Thorn spent 17 years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. Now she has over 85,000 Twitter followers, is a regular literary prize judge and writes a column for the New Statesma (UK).

Her previous books Bedsit Disco Queen and Another Planet were both Sunday Times top ten bestsellers in the UK, selling over 20,000 copies each

For readers of Patti Smith, Viv Albertine, Nina Stibbe and Caitlin Moran.

Biographical Note:

Tracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles, and three books, including the Sunday Times bestsellers Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen. She lives in London, with her husband Ben Watt and their three children.

@tracey_thorn traceythorn.com

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Not only is this a vivid and heartfelt tribute to a mentor, it's also a thoughtful and moving meditation on the connective tissue of life-long friendship. Perhaps Thorn's best book yet-- "The Bookseller, Editor's Choice"

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Superb - Thorn has written the Men Explain Things to Me of musical memoirs-- "TRAVIS ELBOROUGH"

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A vivid and witty memoir of the friendship between Thorn and Lindy Morrison of the Go-Betweens, two women in a cultural world dominated by men . . . [Thorn] brings wit, candour and vividness to her storytelling . . . As well as providing a portrait of a mercurial and brilliant musician, the book exposes the sexism and hypocrisy of an industry . . . Entertaining, affectionate and righteous-- "Guardian"

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This book says so much about being a woman--COSEY FANNI TUTTI

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My Rock 'n' Roll Friend is a book to treasure, brimming with empathy and good jokes. It's something of a lost art, writing well about your friends, and Tracey Thorn does it brilliantly, capturing the difficult bits with great honesty, and shining a light into a whole industry. The book is a rare opportunity to see one sublime artist in counterpoint to another, and all the sexist bullshit is revealed, all the love and trouble, as Thorn shows once again how to be a beautiful chronicler of what memory does and what life amounts to--ANDREW O'HAGAN

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Paints a portrait of female friendship in the male-dominated world of rock 'n' roll-- "NME"

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Part eye-opening biography, this is also an act of redress, retelling The Go-Betweens' story as that of a trio, not a duo, and picking apart the gender-biased clichés of all male rock narratives. Crucially, it's also a moving tale of solidarity between two people who, at times, only seemed to have each other, for better and for worse-- "Mojo"

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A gorgeous, vivid account of female friendship, what it is to be a woman in a band, activism, art, motherhood, love and having men take credit for your work--SINÉAD GLEESON

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Thorn's new book, My Rock 'n' Roll Friend, is settling scores for women . . . At the book's heart is friendship and feminism, but it is no triumphant tale. Thorn has her claws out, to settle scores on Morrison's behalf and to document the rampant sexism that persists in pop today-- "Sunday Times"

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Philosophical and furious . . . Illuminates rock's double standards . . . This is a book about more than music: it recounts the intricacies of female friendship and its crush of projection, permission, allyship and trying-on-for-size-- "Observer"

Brief Description:
"An exploration of female friendship and women in music, from the iconic singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen. In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by gossip and feminism, books and gigs and rock 'n' roll love affairs. Morrison - a headstrong heroine blazing her way through a male-dominated industry - came to be a kind of mentor to Thorn. They shared the joy and the struggle of being women in a band, trying to outwit and face down a chauvinist music media. In My Rock 'n' Roll Friend Thorn takes stock of thirty-seven years of friendship, teasing out the details of connection and affection between two women who seem to be either complete opposites or mirror images of each other. This important book asks what people see, who does the looking, and ultimately who writes women out of - and back into - history."--Publisher information.

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In 1983, backstage at the Lyceum in London, Tracey Thorn and Lindy Morrison first met. Tracey's music career was just beginning, while Lindy, drummer for The Go-Betweens, was ten years her senior. They became confidantes, comrades and best friends, a relationship cemented by gossip and feminism, books and gigs and rock 'n' roll love affairs.

Morrison - a headstrong heroine blazing her way through a male-dominated industry - came to be a kind of mentor to Thorn. They shared the joy and the struggle of being women in a band, trying to outwit and face down a chauvinist music media.

In My Rock 'n' Roll Friend Thorn takes stock of thirty-seven years of friendship, teasing out the details of connection and affection between two women who seem to be either complete opposites or mirror images of each other. This important book asks what people see, who does the looking, and ultimately who writes women out of - and back into - history.

Contributor Bio:Thorn, Tracey

Tracey Thorn is a singer-songwriter and writer, best known for her seventeen years in bestselling duo Everything But The Girl. She was born and grew up as the youngest of three children in Brookmans Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, where she learned the piano, enjoyed underaged drinking, and started her first band while still at school.

Since then, she has released four solo albums, one movie soundtrack, a large handful of singles and two books, including the Sunday Times bestselling memoir, Bedsit Disco Queen, and currently writes a column for the New Statesman. She lives in London, with her husband Ben Watt and their three children.

@tracey_thorn traceythorn.com

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