Título: Brian Jones: The Last Decadent
Autor: Jeremy Reed
Sinopse: "Brian dances across the pages of this book with a particular shake of his blonde hair. It is my intention to follow his steps and so recreate moments of his life as an unsurpassable decadent” The drowning of Brian Jones casts a long shadow over the Rolling Stones legend. It was he who had formed the band, and given them their name, but their meteoric rise to fame proved too much for his fragile personality. Poet and biographer Jeremy Reed shines his light on Jones, placing him in a terrain firmly aligned with the opium visions of Charles Baudelaire, the sartorial extravagance of Oscar Wilde, the sybaritic indulgences of Count Stenbock. He raises questions about Jones’ heterosexuality, citing his inability to form stable relationships with women, and his terror of the hysterical female fans who “in maenadic frenzy set about literally tearing the hair out of their so called heroes and ripping the shirts off their backs.” Increasingly Jones retreated into his own world, and became too debilitated by alcohol and drugs to remain a member of the band he had founded. Isolated in his Sussex farmhouse, Jones was found drowned in his swimming pool at the age of 27. Within three years he was followed by Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and so Jones started another legend, that of the 27 club. Reed vividly recolours Brian Jones’s brief, but incandescent and extraordinarily subversive life amidst the pop and fashion whirlwind of the Sixties, and in doing so presents perhaps the most illuminating and evocative portrait yet written of a fallen rock’n’roll angel. 'He formed the band. He chose the members. He named the band. He chose the music we played. He got us gigs... he was very influential, very important, and then slowly lost it – highly intelligent – and just kind of wasted it and blew it all away' - Bill Wyman Praise for Jeremy Reed: 'Jeremy Reed is British poetry's glam spangly shape-shifting answer to David Bowie' - The Independent 'Jeremy Reed is the British Rimbaud and Genet combined' - Edmund White 'The most brilliant, outrageously beautiful poetry in the world' - Bjork Jeremy Reedis the author of over 40 award winning books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, including studies of Marc Almond and Lou Reed. He has been lauded by giants such as JG Ballard – “Each time he goes out into our mundane world he makes the dust sing” – Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. He is well known as a performer of his work with the Ginger Light.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Brian Jones: The Last Decadent”, de Jeremy Reed, publicado pela editora Endeavour Keys, em 1999 e com 179 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Endeavour Keys
Páginas: 179
Ano: 1999
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 1871592712
ISBN13: 9781871592719
