The Many Lives of Tom Waits
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Publisher Description
This full length biography is the first comprehensive account of a truly legendary artist. It covers every aspect of the life and career of a man who has never seemed to be in the slightest danger of losing his credibility to mainstream success.
With twenty albums to his credit and a legion of passionate fans, the uncompromising Waits continues to conjure up tender, ragged and magical songs that have attracted cover versions by artists as esteemed as Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, The Eagles, Elvis Costello, Meat Loaf, The Ramones and Johnny Cash.
Abrasive and single-minded, the gravel voiced singer/songwriter and occasional movie actor has followed one of the most unlikely career paths in popular music. Patrick Humphries' biography finally does this unique character justice with an in-depth critical overview of his life and work supplemented with authoritative discography and filmography.
Customer Reviews
Self Indulgent book, hardly about Waits
The author here explores anything but the artist himself, chronicling everything that happened around him, but basically nothing to do with him. Total tangent after tangent.
In one chapter the author of this book describes a brief interview he had with him, which happened aeons ago, and Tom wasn't comfortable during the interview, because the author acted needy and pushy, which comes across even from the writer's own conceited writing. Save your money. I don't understand what the writer was going for with this book and I doubt he has any idea himself to this day.