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 Elvis Costello: A Biography - Tony Clayton-Lea
Newest Review: ... read this laughably titled 'Biography', I know little more about the man than I did before I spent £12.99 trying to ... more  ... find out. The author - Tony Clayton-Lea - is an "award winning music writer" and herein lies the problem. The book includes numerous exerpts from NME (New Musical Express) and, in all honesty, the entire book reads like a string of dreadful 70's gig reports. Clayton-Lea seems incapable of calling a spade a spade, preferring 'long handled implement for the purposes of excavation'. His language throughout is irritating in the extreme - on page 2, for example he tells us that "The London based...more |
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Elvis Costello: A Biography - Tony Clayton-Lea: Elvis has left the building... (671 words)
by - written on 20/02/01 (Very useful, 41 readings)
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I've said it before - and I'll probably say it again - I'm nosy! I'm a confirmed people watcher and like to know what makes them tick. Maybe this is why I enjoy reading biographies and autobiographies, and I especially enjoy them if I have something in common with the subject. Perhaps he or she grew up in the same area as I did, which helps me to put their experiences of life in context. Maybe we're of similar ages, so I can relate to their personal experiences of being a child of the sixties or a teenager in the seventies. Anyway, I was overjoyed to come across "Elvis Costello - A Biography" since, for me, it was almost guaranteed to be an ... Read the complete review
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