Nick Drake's Pink Moon

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8264-2790-8
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing plc

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 122 mm x 166 mm, Gewicht: 118 g

Reihe: 33 1/3

This book explores how a tiny acoustic record (Pink Moon) has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. Amanda Petrusich interviews producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and even the marketing team behind the VW commercial.

Nick Drake’s third and final album has puttered and purred its way into a new millennium. The book features interviews with producer Joe Boyd, string arranger Robert Kirby, and even the marketing team behind the Volkswagon commercial that launched the album to platinum status more than thirty years after its release.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petrusich, Amanda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Petrusich is a writer for Pitchforkmedia.com and a senior contributing editor at Paste magazine. Her work has appeared in Spin, the Village Voice, the Oxford American, and elsewhere. She is the author of It Still Moves: Lost Songs, Lost Highways, and the Search for the Next American Music, a travelogue about early Americana music forthcoming from Faber and Faber in 2008. She has an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.