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Sing Backwards and Weep

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Sing Backwards and Weep

Von: Mark Lanegan
Gesprochen von: Mark Lanegan
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

"Mark Lanegan-primitive, brutal, and apocalyptic. What's not to love?" NICK CAVE

"A stoned cold classic" IAN RANKIN

'Mark Lanegan writes like he sings, from the pained heart of a damaged soul with brutal honesty' BOBBY GILLESPIE

"Powerfully written and brutally, frighteningly honest" LUCINDA WILLIAMS

A ROUGH TRADE AND MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR


From the back of the van to the front of the bar, from the hotel room to the emergency room, Mark Lanegan takes us back to the sinister, needle-ridden streets of Seattle, to an alternative music scene that was simultaneously bursting with creativity and saturated with drugs. He tracks the tumultuous rise and fall of Screaming Trees, from a brawling, acid-rock bar band to world-famous festival favourites with an enduring legacy, and tells of his own personal struggles with addiction, culminating in homelessness, petty crime, and the tragic deaths of his closest friends.

Gritty, gripping and unflinchingly raw, SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP is about a man who learned how to drag himself from the wreckage, dust off the ashes, and keep living and creating.

'The most brutally honest rock memoir imaginable' DAILY TELEGRAPH Komponisten & Musiker Musik Unterhaltung & Stars
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Raw, ravaged and personal - a stoned cold classic
Sing Backwards and Weep is powerfully written and brutally, frighteningly honest. First thought that came to my mind was, 'Mark Lanegan gives the term 'bad boy' a whole new meaning.' These are gritty, wild tales of hardcore drugs, sex, and grunge. But this is also the story of a soulful artist who refused the darkness when it tried to swallow him whole. And who found redemption through grace and the power of his unique and brilliant music. Finally, the song becomes truth. And the truth becomes song
A mesmerising trip to the dark side that in places is so gloriously bleak it achieves a kind of Grand Guignol comedy. Written in blood, with true intensity, it becomes an instant classic of the genre
A dark tale of dysfunctional normality and diseased reality. At war with the world and himself, Mark Lanegan writes like he sings, from the pained heart of a damaged soul with brutal honesty (Bobby Gillespie)
One of the rawest and most honest music autobiographies I've ever read (Stuart Braithwaite)
The frontman of the Screaming Trees gives a bloody, brawling, dope-fueled tour of his personal battlefields By any reckoning, Lanegan should be long dead alongside beloved friends like Kurt Cobain of Nirvana, Kristen Pfaff of Hole, and Layne Stanley of Alice in Chains. By either miracle or stamina, the author is still alive to offer a blisteringly raw self-portrait of life not just as an excessively self-indulgent rock star, but also a victim of his own hubris . . . This isn't just a warts-and-all admission; it's a blackout- and overdose-rich confessional marked by guilt and shame. It's also not a redemption song, but like any other train wreck, it's impossible to look away. A stunning tally of the sacrifices that sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll demand of its mortal instruments
Many rock memoirs come with a third act in which the artist achieves sobriety and disavows their former life. Not so Lanegan, who delivers grand guignol scenes of heroin-fuelled violence, degradation and self-abuse while recalling his Screaming Tree days, with little in the way of regrets. Rare in its rawness and bracing honesty.
The most brutally honest rock memoir imaginable (Daily Telegraph)
Not for the faint-hearted (9/10, Classic Rock)
An astonishingly frank, heartbreaking and tremendously brave book (Record Collector)
Dark yet borderline-hilarious cavalcade of horror and mayhem (Big Issue)
The book reads like a debauched Bukowski novel, as Lanegan drifts from sin to sin, cursing those who held him back from music, drugs, and hookups, and recounting grisly tales about his famous friends (Rolling Stone)
This is a frank, astonishing and often horrifying recollection from someone who has certainly lived a life, and who has now decided to share a part of it . . . far from your usual Rockstar Memoir (Si Forster)
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His voice is so calming I can hear him for hours.Amazing story I can't imagine it

Magical

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One of the best autobiographies I know.
Mark Lennegan also does an excellent audition here.
It was only through this audio book that I became curious about his music and now like it.

Brilliant!

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from one of the most important voices of the 1990s. includes lots of detail about the Seattle grunge scene and it's musicians.

brutally honest autobiography

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Very authentic and real life story of a heroin junkie which shows you that nomatter if you are a musician or just a normal person that this lifestyle isn’t worth it.

True Story

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Fantastic biography. A testament of an artist who will be missed. Insightful, honest and captivating. RIP Mark Lanegan

A beautiful insight into the life of a true artist

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