Exit Stage Left: The curious afterlife of pop stars

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Exit Stage Left: The curious afterlife of pop stars

Exit Stage Left: The curious afterlife of pop stars

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A former primetime television personality, his outdated style has seen him relegated to the scrapheap. Additionally, for those in the book who have continued in music but not necessarily for fame, you can find some examples of what they have been up to.

Featuring brand-new interviews with the likes of: Bob Geldof, Shaun Ryder, Robbie Williams, Roisin Murphy, Stewart Copeland, Billy Bragg, Wendy James, Alex Kapranos, Joan Armatrading, Leo Sayer, Gary Lightbody, Lisa Maffia, Tim Booth, Bill Drummond, Rufus Wainwright, David Gray and Justin Hawkins. I found it really interesting to see how a pop star, someone whose wildest dreams came true, navigates all of that. What was illuminating was how a lot of them ended up under the unrelenting gaze of reality TV as for some, like Shaun Ryder, it was the need to pay off debts and create a revenue stream beyond that. At the time of this interview, music fans watched Kate Bush’s 1985 single “Running Up That Hill” go viral following its inclusion in the latest season of Netflix’s hit series, “Stranger Things. While this is not just quote after quote from his interviews, each chapter does use a mixture of quotes and paraphrasing to convey the story.I am more than happy with this style since just putting the interviews down as they were would have been far less organized. At times, the book does feel repetitive, but this only adds to the fact that for all the riches some have attained they have been put through punishing schedules and mental fatigue to earn it. p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. I got two novels out on the same library trip as this, both of which I abandoned before they even merited a place on my Abandoned shelf, because we so clearly weren't gelling. These are tales of heroin addiction, bankruptcy, depression, divorce - but also of optimism, a genuine love of the craft, humility and hope.

is the brightest candle, but in this brilliant collection of interviews, Nick Duerden answers the question: what does a candle do after it’s burned out? Anybody who has followed a pop musician's career will appreciate the alarm and horror of the protagonists as the adulation fades - but most of the musicians are wiser for it. I'm fascinated with the lifecycle of popular musicians - because after that first amazing album, what comes next?I found that I knew or at least had heard of 80% of the musicians in the book, and the book introduced me to a few new acts (hello Tenpole Tudor! But many are still in the music business in some form or other, just not doing what they were doing before. Just because you’re still hearing a decades-old hit at weddings or on Spotify doesn’t mean that the person behind it is spending their days doing yoga by the pool of their mansion. Whereas we do hear how Dennis Seaton from Musical Youth still performs live sometimes (and, perhaps having learned from that Big Train sketch, is happy to repeatedly play the hit) alongside a day job as Chair of the Ladder Association Training Committee ("When it's right to use a ladder, use the ladder, and get trained to use it safely.

There was quite a lot to read in this book, and I think it was OK to skip over an artist you aren't particularly interested in. How do they go on with their lives when they no longer can fill arena stadiums or sell a million albums? A small sampling of the many musicians covered were Stewart Copeland (drummer for the Police), Natalie Merchant (10,000 Maniacs), Dexys Midnight Runners (think "Come on Eileen"), Suzanne Vega, Adam Ant, Snow Patrol, Leo Sayer, Joan Armatrading and Terence Trent D'Arby. His story has ‘a redemptive arc’ that is incredibly moving to read: Peter Perrett, left, performing with the Only Ones at Hammersmith Odeon, London, April 1978.And as time passed between chats, Duerden noticed that the artists became more interesting as their lives continued to change. There are some revealing testimonies within the book from Shaun Ryder, Rufus Wainwright, Lisa Maffia, Lloyd Cole and many others from pop, rock, dance and indie, making Nick Duerden’s book an enlightening, humorous and extremely entertaining read. p>The data controller is Headline Publishing Group Limited. I told my bandmates that I was quitting the band, packed a bag and bought a one-way plane ticket to Philadelphia. The opener is a sensitive account of the life and career of Peter Perrett of the Only Ones, whose 1978 release Another Girl, Another Planet is one of punk’s great pop songs.

The happiest people in the book are the ones who accept fame when it happened, that know that going out, playing a few gigs a year, featuring the old hits, whilst playing newer songs which go down less well is the fate that awaits them. In the music industry a band or a musician seems to have a set time for fame, fortune and everything that goes with it, then beep a signal goes out, taste police show up and a person goes from the main stage at Glastonbury, to support set, to oldies tours or even reality television. Exit Stage Left by Nick Duerden is an intriguing look at what happens after that peak of popularity for most pop stars. We live in a culture obsessed by the notion of fame—the heedless pursuit of it, the almost obligatory subsequent fallout.But those who did agree to the interviews — a lengthy list that includes Don McLean, Bob Geldof, Robbie Williams, Stewart Copeland, Billy Bragg, Joan Armatrading, Leo Sayer and more — reveal much more than one might ordinarily read in a newspaper or magazine article.



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