I was playing "The Kids are Alright" - I made sure it wasn't loud - I'm not sure she cared for it.
I read Roger Daltrey's memoir, "Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite" (the name, right?) but my co-worker, whose cd it is, can't quite reconcile my desire to read the book with my insistence that I'm not a Who fan, and never was.
Of course, I am familiar with all their hits from the past, but never bought an album. I think what got me curious about Roger Daltrey was an article years ago somewhere that said he was a fish and game warden someplace in England. Well!, I thought, now that's a very normal thing for a rock singer to want to do. So when I heard about his book I had an interest.
Another thing going for it is its brevity. Some of these rock memoirs are very long (Keith Richards, anyone? - but I'm not a Stones fan, either). I've never even read a Beatles biography and I always loved them.
So anyway, I read this one - it was interesting. He got to his point, didn't beat about the bush. I'm glad I read it, but I still don't want to see "Tommy", don't want to listen to "Quadrophenia". I don't think Dolly does, either.
I got part the way through Neil Young's autobiography (I was/am a fan), but found it heavy going. Maybe I should have taken note of the title (Waging Heavy Peace).
ReplyDeleteI was never much of a Stones or Beatles fan, but I did like the Monkees! I'm almost embarrassed to admit it now :)) xx
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DeleteYou know that Peter Tork was from Connecticut, right?
DeleteNo...I didn't know that! Or maybe I did...way back then...
DeleteBut it was Davy Jones I fancied :)) xx
But while we're on the subject of biographies, I'm reading the memoir of Reeve Lindbergh (Under a Wing), daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh (who wrote Gift from the Sea). I'm really enjoying it! xx
DeleteThe Lindberghs are an interesting couple, what little I know of them. I used to bring home some of Anne's works for my mother and she liked them.
DeleteI'm sure his life was interesting to read about. Not a Who fan myself, either, but it's always fascinating to have a peak at the ordinary man behind the "star".
ReplyDeleteYes - they are human, I guess. ;-)
DeleteI like reading biographies just to see what these people were/are really like; or at least, what their biographer says about them.
ReplyDeleteYes, and I just picked up a biography of the four MacDonald sisters; daughters of the George MacDonald the minister who wrote the fairy tales. I had no idea he had daughters, one of whom married Edward Burne-Jones, one the mother of Rudyard Kipling, one whose son was Stanley Baldwin and the last was married to Edward Poynter, president of the Royal Academy. I hadn't heard of these ladies!
DeleteWe don't make these connections because most history starts and ends with the men and the women stay in their shadow. I would be most interested to read that biography, Lisa. Who wrote it, please?
ReplyDeleteClare, it's called Circle of Sisters, and Judith Flanders wrote it, c2001.
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