PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Sylvie Simmons is a renowned music journalist and award-winning writer. A Londoner, she moved to LA in the late seventies where she began writing about rock music for Sounds, Creem and Kerrang!, then Rolling Stone, the Guardian and MOJO. She is the author of fiction and non-fiction books, including the acclaimed Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes, Neil Young: Reflections in Broken Glass and the short story collection Too Weird for Ziggy. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she plays ukulele and still writes for MOJO.
A well-rounded portrait of the poet-singer...his dry wit finds an echo in Simmons's phrase-making * Financial Times * Simmons loves language, hates cliche and takes her time... [she] recreates long-gone incidents with such vigour that you'd swear Simmons was there at the time, sitting in the corner and taking notes * Guardian * The year's most meticulous, elegant and satisfying rock book * Independent * Simmons' clear affection for her subject helps to illuminate Cohen's motivations and working methods and gives an intriguing insight into his singular mind * Sunday Times * Cohen gets the music biography he truly deserves * Mojo *
The Collected Works of Jim Morrison...
Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and...
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