Post by vibranian on Dec 21, 2007 9:38:48 GMT
Well, as previously mentioned, I’ve been Christmas shopping. 
Here’s one gem I managed to pick up:
“The Man Who Was Screaming Lord Sutch” by Graham Sharpe.
This is the definitive biography, written in 2005 and in hard back retailing at £16.99. I'm a bit of a fan (although, alas, I never saw him live
) and was searching for the book on the interwebby thingy the other day. Currently it is on special offer at Amazon for 14 quid or something.
Well, I spotted in, of all places, Poundland!
And it cost, funnily enough, £1!!!!
It is a brand new mint condition hardback – I suggest if you have any interest in Screaming Lord Sutch, and also if you haven’t any interest in him at all – get yourself off to Poundland NOW and buy a copy!!!! At that price if you don’t like it then it will still be a very cheap doorstop…
I’ve only had the book for a few hours but already I’ve read a fair chunk of it. I read a lot of biographies of musicians and performers and this is definitely one of the best, very well written and difficult to put down.
It avoids the chronological “he was born on the blah blah and went to blah blah school” type format – or at least it mixes this into later chapters – and doesn’t pull punches over Sutch’s clinical depression and suicide. It has an excellent appendix at the back of every musician who ever played in or with ‘The Savages’ which is an incredible list covering 14 pages…
For anyone who doesn’t know much about screaming Lord Sutch or doesn’t know about his musical side – he was an authentic eccentric, leader of the Monster Raving Loony Party, but most importantly he was a pioneer of theatrical rock music. Like John Mayal or Graham Bond or Alexis Korner, he never achieved much fame or notoriety for his music – but his groups where a training ground for lots of musicians in and around London who went on to greater things. (Ritchie Blackmore and Keith Moon were two early recruits).
Unlike Korner/Mayal/Bond he was no musician and never rated very highly as a singer (especially by himself). His forte was his wild theatrical stage performance… Many bands openly admit they borrowed very heavily from him (outrageous costumes, emerging from coffins onstage, a band hearse instead of a transit van, setting his hat on fire, mock shootings and murders on stage - Sutch was doing it all years before anyone else...)
He alledgedly had an incredible audience rapport and his amazing stage act had to be seen live to be appreciated (well, so I’m told).
Does this sound familiar?
Vib
Here’s one gem I managed to pick up:
“The Man Who Was Screaming Lord Sutch” by Graham Sharpe.
This is the definitive biography, written in 2005 and in hard back retailing at £16.99. I'm a bit of a fan (although, alas, I never saw him live
) and was searching for the book on the interwebby thingy the other day. Currently it is on special offer at Amazon for 14 quid or something. Well, I spotted in, of all places, Poundland!
And it cost, funnily enough, £1!!!!
It is a brand new mint condition hardback – I suggest if you have any interest in Screaming Lord Sutch, and also if you haven’t any interest in him at all – get yourself off to Poundland NOW and buy a copy!!!! At that price if you don’t like it then it will still be a very cheap doorstop…
I’ve only had the book for a few hours but already I’ve read a fair chunk of it. I read a lot of biographies of musicians and performers and this is definitely one of the best, very well written and difficult to put down.
It avoids the chronological “he was born on the blah blah and went to blah blah school” type format – or at least it mixes this into later chapters – and doesn’t pull punches over Sutch’s clinical depression and suicide. It has an excellent appendix at the back of every musician who ever played in or with ‘The Savages’ which is an incredible list covering 14 pages…
For anyone who doesn’t know much about screaming Lord Sutch or doesn’t know about his musical side – he was an authentic eccentric, leader of the Monster Raving Loony Party, but most importantly he was a pioneer of theatrical rock music. Like John Mayal or Graham Bond or Alexis Korner, he never achieved much fame or notoriety for his music – but his groups where a training ground for lots of musicians in and around London who went on to greater things. (Ritchie Blackmore and Keith Moon were two early recruits).
Unlike Korner/Mayal/Bond he was no musician and never rated very highly as a singer (especially by himself). His forte was his wild theatrical stage performance… Many bands openly admit they borrowed very heavily from him (outrageous costumes, emerging from coffins onstage, a band hearse instead of a transit van, setting his hat on fire, mock shootings and murders on stage - Sutch was doing it all years before anyone else...)
He alledgedly had an incredible audience rapport and his amazing stage act had to be seen live to be appreciated (well, so I’m told
).Does this sound familiar?
Vib