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A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage (repost)

Posted By: Veslefrikk
A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage (repost)

A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage by Joe Jackson
Publisher: Da Capo Press | pages: 288 | 2000 | ISBN: 0306810018 | PDF | 24 mb

Something more than a journeyman and less than a superstar, Joe Jackson has a reputation for being a reclusive and prickly character. But he refuses the low road with A Cure for Gravity, a resolutely non-lurid autobiography of a man who considers music to be a noble calling. It matters not that the author was once lumped in with England's insurgent first-generation punks and new-wavers; here Jackson insistently focuses on his development as a composer, player, and performer, approximately in that order. Born to modest means in a setting where a sickly, creative youngster such as Jackson was regarded with suspicion, if not contempt, the young Brit was trained in the classics and developed his keyboard skills, playing everything from cabaret to progressive rock before finally setting off on his own as a sharp-tongued, ska-influenced Angry Young Man.