Van Morrison: No Surrender

Author: Rogan, Johnny

Brand: VINTAGE

Edition: Illustrated

Binding: paperback

Format: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 672

Release Date: 06-06-2006

model number: 9780099431831

Part Number: 9780099431831

Details: Product Description
Reclusive, difficult and enigmatic, Van Morrison is a gifted singer-songwriter and an endlessly complicated man. In Van Morrison: No Surrender, Johnny Rogan has produced a provocative and revelatory biography of the musician, analysing the sense of place in his work and the tortuous journey that took him from local fame in Belfast to international success. Set against the cultural and political backdrop of Belfast, before, during and after the Troubles, No Surrender offers a unique and penetrating perspective on Morrison's long career and the times that made him.This paperback edition includes a new epilogue.
Review
'No biography is likely to tell you more about Morrison' - Adam Sweeting, Sunday Times

A compendium of detail, a neck-aching triumph of research ―
Scotsman

Here is everything you wanted to know about Van Morrison... Rogan leaves no stone unturned ―
Guardian

'Remarkably well-researched and deeply engrossing...Rogan's painstaking research yields an abundance of detail...Fascinating' ―
Irish Times

'This characteristically accomplished biography shows the singer from every angle' ―
Observer
About the Author
Johnny Rogan is the author of over twenty books, including highly acclaimed biographies/musical studies of the Byrds, the Smiths, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, John Lennon and Morrissey. His groundbreaking
Starmakers & Svengalis: The History Of British Pop Management was adapted for a six-week BBC series.
Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance was one of the best-selling and most controversial rock biographies of its time, receiving various music biography of the year awards, and has been in print continuously for over twenty years. More recently,
Van Morrison: No Surrender was chosen by the
Sunday Times
as one of its Top 10 Music Books of the Year. He is currently completing an epic two-volume study,
Byrds: Requiem For the Timeless.

EAN: 9780099431831

Package Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 3.7 inches

Languages: English