Jeff Apter: 'A Pure Drop' - The Life Of Jeff Buckley (Hardback)

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Language:		English

Artist:		Jeff Buckley

Author:		Jeff Apter

Publisher:		Omnibus Press

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A pure drop explores all of Buckley's fascinating facets and seeks to explain why he became so extraordinarily influential. It was his take on John Cale's cover version of Leonard Cohen's rather obscure song 'Hallelujah' that made the number famous and one solitary album -Grace- that caused everyone from Led Zeppelin and U2 to Radiohead and Coldplay to look up to Buckley as an illuminating spirit.

This meticulous exploration of the short life of Jeff Buckley draws on personal letters and the recollections of dozens of his friends and lovers as well as fellow musicians.

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Sales Rank:: 50097
Published on:: 01/09/2008
Format:: Biography
Length:: 256 pages
Language:: English
Catalogue #:: OP52151
ISBN:: 9781847721075

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Unfortunately, a disappointment from the get-go.

Ok, I started this book the day I finished Catch-22 - perhaps not the best beginnings for what was clearly going destined to be an underdog. But honestly, I'd found a glaring contradiction in the first half-hour of reading (details regarding Jeff's meeting/s with his father) and a typo in the first chapter. There are more cringe-worthy analogies than I care to even recollect, ("This bird could sing" and "There were so many sides to Buckley he was almost round" were among my most hated) and the persistent barrage of Old French ("sans manager" et cetera) was just distracting.

I'm sorry to say I'm unsure whether I'll even finish this book, as I'm positive there's lots of information that will be of interest to myself and other Buckley fans. But suffice to say, it's a low-brow, magazine-article-style read from an average author that gives the appearance of being cobbled together in a mad rush to appease an over-enthusiastic publisher.
Anon.

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