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Small Hours

The Long Night of John Martyn
  • ISBN-13: 9781913172657
  • Publisher: OMNIBUS PRESS
    Imprint: OMNIBUS PRESS
  • By Graeme Thomson
  • Price: AUD $25.99
  • Stock: 3 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 01/04/2024
  • Format: Paperback (198.00mm X 129.00mm) 288 pages Weight: 400g
  • Categories: Music [AV]Biography: general [BG]
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Did any musician in the Seventies fly so free as John Martyn did on Bless The Weather, Solid Air, Inside Out and One World? Did any fall so far?

Small Hours is an intimate, unflinching biography of one of the great maverick artists. Though Martyn never had a hit single, his extraordinary voice, innovative guitar playing and profoundly soulful songs secured his status as a much admired pioneer.

Covered by Eric Clapton, revered by Lee Scratch Perry, produced by Phil Collins, Martyn influenced several generations of musicians, but beneath the songs lay a complicated and volatile personality. He lived his life the same way he made music: improvising as he went; scattering brilliance, beauty, rage and destruction in his wake.

Drawing on almost 100 new interviews, Small Hours is a raw and utterly gripping account of sixty years of daredevil creativity, soaring highs and sometimes unconscionable lows.

Graeme Thomson is a writer specialising in music and literature. He has written for Time Out, Rolling Stone, and the Observer Music Monthly among other publications. Under the Ivy, his book on Kate Bush, was serialised in the Guardian.

Its [the] adherence to home-truths... which gives Small Hours its power... just as good as Thomson’s acclaimed studies of Kate Bush and Phil Lynott Mojo

Unflinchingly critical of Martyn’s failings and his substance-fuelled excesses (and) equally glowing in its praise of his finest achievements as a genre-blurring performer. Insightful and beautifully written. Shindig!

This painstaking, eloquent biography... balances the fans assiduousness with a critics sieving action. Observer

Tethers the sometimes golden music to the often savage man, retaining sympathy for his subject and the casualties he caused. Classic Rock, 9/10

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