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Robert Wyatt was a founding member of Soft Machine and a key figure in the sixties underground scene that included Pink Floyd. He has gone on to be a highly respected solo artist, revered by Elvis Costello, Damon Albarn and many others as one of England's truly original musical voices. In 1973, Wyatt fell from a third floor window during a party, leaving him paralysed from the waist downwards. From that day onwards he has concentrated his efforts into solo recordings, mixing simple and effective keyboard melody lines with poignant lyrics, often filled with personal and political references. The results have proved both haunting and reflective, even producing two chart hits - his 1974 reworking of "I'm A Believer", and the 1983 Falklands War indictment "Shipbuilding" written especially for him by Elvis Costello. Michael King's meticulous biography pieces together a chronological account of Wyatt's 30-year career and is packed with previously unpublished archive material and rare photographs.
ISBN: 0946719 10 1 |
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WRONG MOVEMENTS Michael King Q Magazine Long-overdue account of Brit-rock's most engaging "back room" boy. Part-biography, part documentary, but at all time engaging. VOX Magazine (Rock books of 1994)
Enriched with the kind of detailed discography any Wyatt-spotter
could ever wish for, Wrong Movements offers a wonderful companion to his
music. The biographer's art is not to be sneezed at, but in terms of music biogs, nothing really beats the approach used here - a scrapbook full of contemporaneous cuttings and photos. The Wire |
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