Author:Graham Nash
Wild Tales by Graham Nash - a classic rock memoir of the legendary Hollies front man and member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
In this candid and riveting autobiography Graham Nash tells it all: the love, the sex, the jealousy, the drugs, and the magical music-making.
This is one of the great rock and roll stories: growing up in poverty in postwar Manchester, where Nash founded the Hollies with schoolfriend Allan Clarke and the incredible success that followed, friendships with all the great British bands of the 60s including the Beatles, the Stones and the Kinks, decamping to America and becoming the lover of Joni Mitchell (for whom he wrote 'Our House') and achieving superstardom with David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Neil Young.
This book will be adored by Graham Nash fans and takes its rightful place in the pantheon of classic music memoirs alongside Book Dylan's Chronicles, Keith Richards' Life and Neil Young's Waging Heavy Peace.
Graham Nash was born in Blackpool in 1942 and brought up in Salford. He was cofounder with his schoolfriend Allan Clarke of the Hollies - one of the most successful British pop groups of the 1960s for whom he was lead-singer and one of the principal songwriters. In 1968 he left the UK to live in California, where he became part of the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash (later, after Neil Young joined, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young). Unusually he has been inducted twice into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, for the Hollies and for CSNY, and in 2010 he received the OBE. He is noted for his political and charity work (he played Occupy Wall Street in 2011), is a serious photographer, and has homes in California and Hawaii.
A fascinating memoir tells of life on the other side of the ampersand... optimistic, charming and terribly British
—— MojoIt was the best of times, it was the best of places: Will Hermes captures the creative incandescence of New York in those five years that changed music
—— Richard WilliamsBrings depth and discernment and an eye for odd detail, making his book an essential work of cultural history
—— Luc SanteA very, very important [book] ... I can’t think of a work that has so brilliantly expressed how a person disabled from birth sees herself
—— Dominic Lawson , The Sunday TimesAs entertaining as it is moving ... this book is a wonderful, funny, warm coming-of-age memoir about finding your own path in life. Long may she wobble. Five stars.
—— Viv Groskop, The TelegraphA comedian brilliantly captures how a person disabled from birth sees herself
—— The Sunday Times , CultureIt is honest and refreshing but most of all it is bloody funny. What the **** is normal anyway?
—— TelegraphMorrissey's Autobiography is brilliant and relentless. Genius, really
—— Douglas CouplandWell, so far Morrissey's book is an absolute masterpiece; no doubt the whole stinking country will hate it.
—— Frankie BoyleThis is the best book ever. Like ever
—— WonderlandCarried along on quite extraordinary prose
—— Time OutThe Best Music Biog Ever ... In the world of rock autobiographies, Morrissey's is nigh-on perfect
—— Ben Hewitt , NMEPractically every paragraph has a line or two that demands to be read aloud to the mirror, tattooed on foreheads, carved on tombstones
—— Rolling StoneMorrissey is a pop star of unusual writing talent
—— The New York TimesAutobiography is a rich and substantial work, the figure emerging at its centre both compelling and complex. Those who know his music will be unsurprised by the qualities of Morrissey's prose, which is ornate, windswept, elusive yet never tricksy, and full of unexpected twists and thrusts. He writes with understanding (albeit often with a tout comprendre c'est rien pardonner caveat) and is most of all straightforwardly moving; never more so than when writing about his childhood
—— Gwendoline Riley , Times Literary SupplementAutobiography doesn't disappoint. In its pages Morrissey manages to perform the neat trick of deconstructing his own myth while at the same time adding to it. Old scores are settled and anyone who ever crossed the singer is neatly decapitated herein by withering, barbed prose. Things could have gone very differently for Morrissey. He could have ended up cleaning canal banks or delivering the post for a living. Both of these outcomes would have left the world a far duller place. Autobiography is the man in his own words and, Morrissey being Morrissey, this means that we are presented with an account that is real and fantastic, unapologetically romantic and brutally honest. The die-hard fans have read the book already but for anyone with even a passing interest in what makes one of the most individual and unflinching voices in British pop music tick, Autobiography is essential
—— Loud and Quiet magazine
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