Full name: Some People Are Crazy: The John Martyn Story

Author: John Neil Munro Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Music Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781846970580 184697058X

Described recently by Empire magazine as "Britain's best ever blues singer", John Martyn was one of rock music's last real mavericks. Despite long-term addiction to alcohol and drugs, which contributed to his death in January 2009, he produced a string of matchless albums. Loved by fans and critics, loathed by ex-managers, he survived the music business he despised for forty years. With contributions by Martyn, many of his lovers and over twenty musicians who knew him well, this book documents his upbringing in Glasgow and rise through the Scottish and London folk scene of the 1960s, his many highs and lows, and his friendships with the great lost souls of British rock music--Nick Drake and Paul Kossoff. Similar books: Metallica: Back to the Front by Matt Taylor The Jazz Standards by Ted Gioia The Gold Bug Variations by Richard Powers The Loser by Thomas Bernhard On Playing the Flute by Johann Joachim Quantz Puccini Without Excuses by William Berger Young People's Concerts by Leonard Bernstein The Billboard Book of Number One Hits by Fred Bronson The Joy of Music by Leonard Bernstein Verdi With a Vengeance by William Berger Notations by John Cage Musicking by Christopher Small Meeting Jimmie Rodgers by Barry Mazor Audio Engineering 101 by Tim Dittmar Hardcore California by Peter Belsito Rocking the Classics by Edward Macan The Mastery of Music by Barry Green The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory by Michael Miller Miles Beyond by Paul Tingen Hearing and Writing Music by Ron Gorow