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Since the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a famously private person, whose lack of interest in his own celebrity has been interpreted by some as aloofness. That reputation is shattered by A Cure for Gravity, Jackson's enormously funny and revealing memoir of growing up musical, from a culturally impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, through London's Punk and New Wave scenes, up to the brink of pop stardom. Jackson describes his life as a teenage Beethoven fanatic; his early piano gigs for audiences of glass-throwing skinheads; and his days on the road with long-forgotten club bands. Far from a standard-issue celebrity autobiography, A Cure for Gravity is a smart, passionate book about music, the creative process, and coming of age as an artist.

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: Cure For Gravity
• Subtitle: A Musical Pilgrimage
• Author: Joe Jackson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780306810015
• ISBN: 0306810018
• ID: 04575317
• Publisher: Hachette Books
• Weight: 402 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2000

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