The legendary music impresario (and producer of bands like The Yardbirds and Wham!) tells his life story in a series of mesmerizingly candid vignettes.
Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom: Lessons from a Dissolute Life is the book Simon Napier-Bells fans have always hoped hed write.
From 1940s London where he listened to wartime hits like 'Mairzy doats and dozy doats' in the air-raid shelter; to talking about Wham! with Deng Xiaoping, head of Communist China, or getting stoned with Elaine May and Jack Lemmon by the pool in 60s Beverly Hills, Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom makes most memoirs look like thin gruel by comparison. This is a high-octane explosion of a book, a kaleidoscopic sequence of more than sixty lessons drawn from a life lived to the full: frank, funny, freewheeling and honest.
There are anecdotes of the acts he managed (the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Marc Bolan, Japan, Sinitta, Boney M, Candi Staton, Ultravox, Asia, Wham!, George Michael and Sinead OConnor) but theres also the wisdom gathered from a louche life of clubs, restaurants, gigs, arrests, awards, bankruptcies, bereavements, booze, coups and sex, both gay and straight.
Papildus informācija
From co-writing a hit single for Dusty Springfield to taking Wham! to China, the legendary impresario tells all in this eagerly anticipated memoir
| Prelude: Don't waste too much time on decisions: you'll soon find out if you're wrong, and it's always more interesting |
|
|
|
|
3 | (2) |
|
|
|
5 | (4) |
|
|
|
9 | (5) |
|
|
|
14 | (7) |
|
FIFTIES AND BEFORE: Sometimes the most difficult thing to persevere with is yourself |
|
|
|
|
|
21 | (4) |
|
|
|
25 | (5) |
|
|
|
30 | (4) |
|
|
|
34 | (6) |
|
|
|
40 | (2) |
|
|
|
42 | (4) |
|
|
|
46 | (2) |
|
|
|
48 | (5) |
|
|
|
53 | (4) |
|
1958 Gila Monsters and Mexico City |
|
|
57 | (8) |
|
SIXTIES: Never underestimate the benefit of not knowing the right thing to do |
|
|
|
|
|
65 | (3) |
|
|
|
68 | (8) |
|
|
|
76 | (1) |
|
|
|
77 | (14) |
|
|
|
91 | (3) |
|
|
|
94 | (4) |
|
|
|
98 | (4) |
|
|
|
102 | (4) |
|
|
|
106 | (6) |
|
|
|
112 | (3) |
|
|
|
115 | (8) |
|
SEVENTIES: Trust instinct over all else, especially advice |
|
|
|
|
|
123 | (10) |
|
|
|
133 | (3) |
|
1974 Number One in Brazil |
|
|
136 | (5) |
|
|
|
141 | (3) |
|
|
|
144 | (4) |
|
|
|
148 | (3) |
|
1975 First Time in Thailand |
|
|
151 | (9) |
|
|
|
160 | (7) |
|
|
|
167 | (4) |
|
1978 A Fridge in Frankfurt |
|
|
171 | (2) |
|
|
|
173 | (6) |
|
EIGHTIES: Solving problems is easier than avoiding them but not as much fun as causing them |
|
|
|
|
|
179 | (3) |
|
|
|
182 | (5) |
|
|
|
187 | (5) |
|
|
|
192 | (6) |
|
|
|
198 | (6) |
|
|
|
204 | (5) |
|
|
|
209 | (5) |
|
|
|
214 | (9) |
|
|
|
223 | (3) |
|
|
|
226 | (3) |
|
|
|
229 | (4) |
|
|
|
233 | (4) |
|
|
|
237 | (8) |
|
NINETIES: My mouth has a mind of its own and I don't always agree with what it says |
|
|
|
|
|
245 | (4) |
|
|
|
249 | (9) |
|
|
|
258 | (3) |
|
|
|
261 | (6) |
|
|
|
267 | (4) |
|
|
|
271 | (4) |
|
|
|
275 | (6) |
|
1997 Sunday Lunch in England |
|
|
281 | (4) |
|
1999 Sunday Lunch in Thailand |
|
|
285 | (2) |
|
|
|
287 | (4) |
|
NEW MILLENNIUM: The thing most worth having faith in is the worlds ability to carry on fine without you |
|
|
|
|
|
291 | (5) |
|
|
|
296 | (9) |
|
2008 Under the Acacia Trees |
|
|
305 | (3) |
|
|
|
308 | (4) |
|
|
|
312 | (4) |
|
|
|
316 | (3) |
|
|
|
319 | (4) |
|
|
|
323 | (5) |
|
2021 Wives, Lovers and Shags |
|
|
328 | (10) |
|
|
|
338 | (3) |
| A Note on the Author |
|
341 | (2) |
| Index |
|
343 | (10) |
| Supporters |
|
353 | |
Simon Napier-Bell has been a film composer, songwriter, record producer, and author, but he is best known for having managed such artists as The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Japan and Wham!. Under his management, Wham! became the first Western pop group ever to play in Communist China. He is the author of four acclaimed books about the music industry: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Black Vinyl White Powder, I'm Coming to Take You to Lunch and The Business. He is CEO of the Pierbel Entertainment Group, and continues to consult, write and broadcast, most recently directing documentary films on subjects ranging from Frank Sinatra to the decriminalisation of homosexuality in Britain. Simon lives in Thailand.
Biežāk uzdotie jautājumi par e-grāmatām