Gutter black : a memoir / Dave McArtney.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Zealand : HarperCollins Publishers, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 319 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781775540397
- 781.66092 23
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Includes index.
1. Ten years after Pearl Harbor -- 2. Young years -- 3. So we went surfing -- 4. The cop with no name -- 5. Mandrax mansion -- 6. The Braziers -- 7. Into the wind -- 8. Myth and legend -- 9. The castle and the globe -- 10. Through the blue door -- 11. Gutter Black -- 12. Flight TE101 -- 13. It was and it was not -- 14. The troubadour -- 15. Dying in public -- 16. The duke goes deaf -- 17. Who loves LA? -- 18. Boarding call -- 20. Oz -- 21. The pink flamingos -- 22. Returns -- 23. Just business -- 24. Back on the road -- 25. Electric ladyland -- 26. Culture shock -- 27. Recall -- 28. Surrey crescent moon -- 29. Fate.
"An intimate, raw memoir by a founding member of one of NZ's iconic rock bands, Hello Sailor; a tale of creativity, misadventure, success and excess. Dave McArtney was one of New Zealand's best known musicians and songwriters. As a founding member of the legendary Hello Sailor, he wrote or co-wrote most of their best known songs, including 'Gutter Black,' one of the country's best known and best loved hits. Dave McArtney's description of Hello Sailor's campaign to conquer the American music scene is as funny as it is accurate. In this long-awaited memoir, completed just weeks before his untimely death, Dave gives the reader an access-all-areas pass to the life of a working rock'n'roll musician. From the band's earliest days at the notorious 'Mandrax Mansion' in 1970s Ponsonby, to becoming the biggest band in the land and then taking on the world, Gutter Black is a story of music, mateship (Mandrax) and a good deal of madness. It is also the memoir of a uniquely creative musician, who went on to further success with his band the Pink Flamingos, and a very personal story of love, family and facing one's own mortality. Complete with previously unpublished photographs and band memorabilia, 'Gutter Black' is the definitive account of the man, the bands and the music that rocked a nation"--Publisher's information.
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