Título: Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen
Autor: Brad Tolinski, Chris Gill
Sinopse: Get a completely new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen with this groundbreaking oral history, composed of more than fifty hours of interviews with Eddie himself as well as his family, friends, and colleagues. When rock legend Eddie Van Halen died of cancer on October 6, 2020, the entire world seemed to stop and grieve. Since his band Van Halen burst onto the scene with their self-titled debut album in 1978, Eddie had been hailed as an icon not only to fans of rock music and heavy metal, but to performers across all genres and around the world. Van Halen’s debut sounded unlike anything that listeners had heard before and remains a quintessential rock album of the era.
Over the course of more than four decades, Eddie gained renown for his innovative guitar playing, and particularly for popularizing the tapping guitar solo technique. Unfortunately for Eddie and his legions of fans, he died before he was ever able to put his life down to paper in his own words, and much of his compelling backstory has remained elusive—until now.
In Eruption, music journalists Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill share with fans, new and old alike, a candid, compulsively readable, and definitive oral history of the most influential rock guitarist since Jimi Hendrix. It is based on more than 50+ hours of unreleased interviews they recorded with Eddie Van Halen over the years, most of them conducted at the legendary 5150 studios at Ed’s home in Los Angeles. The heart of Eruption is drawn from these intimate and wide-ranging talks, as well as conversations with family, friends, and colleagues.
In addition to discussing his greatest triumphs as a groundbreaking musician, including an unprecedented dive into Van Halen’s masterpiece 1984, the book also takes an unflinching look at Edward’s early struggles as young Dutch immigrant unable to speak the English language, which resulted in lifelong issues with social anxiety and substance abuse. Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen also examines his brilliance as an inventor who changed the face of guitar manufacturing.
As entertaining as it is revealing, Eruption is the closest readers will ever get to hearing Eddie’s side of the story when it comes to his extraordinary life.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen”, de Brad Tolinski, Chris Gill, publicado pela editora Hachette Books, em 2021 e com 336 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Hachette Books
Páginas: 336
Ano: 2021-10-05
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0306826658
ISBN13: 9780306826658
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Hachette Books costumam oferecer experiências de leitura marcadas por narrativas intensas e pessoais, que transitam entre memórias de músicos e figuras públicas, relatos de superação, e investigações detalhadas de histórias reais. O catálogo privilegia obras que exploram trajetórias de vida com tons que vão do íntimo ao social, como memórias de artistas do rock e do metal, histórias de justiça criminal, e relatos de batalhas pessoais e coletivas. A linguagem tende a ser direta, com ritmo que ora se concentra em relatos vívidos e emocionais, ora em análises profundas e contextualizadas, sem perder a fluidez. Há uma clara preferência por temas ligados à música, biografias, justiça, e histórias de transformação pessoal e social.
