Bücher von Geoff Brown

Not just a complete fan's guide to the music of Michael Jackson, this book is the definitive overview of the unforgettable King of Pop's unique career.

Soul icon James Brown died on Christmas Day, 2006, fifty years after his recording debut. Despite a career slump in the seventies and only intermittent success during his eighties and nineties revival, James Brown had more hits than any other black artist in the history of recording music. At the same time he was the most sampled musician of all time.This is the definitive biography of this extraordinary and controversial superstar, written by Geoff Brown, a former editor of Black Music magazine.For three decades James Brown dominated the changing face of post-war popular black music. Others were as inspirational in the short term, andseveral of his successors have been bigger pop stars, but none matched Brown's independent authority, sustained influence or commercial longevity. But while another generation danced to the pulse of James Brown, at the end of the eighties the man himself was back in a southern US jail, a country mile or so from where he was first incarcerated in his teens. Between the two internments is the compelling story of a man who, by reaching from his roots and striving determinedly for himself, came to represent in music and personal power the post-war emancipation of black America. Illustrated with many rare photographs, and including a comprehensive discography.

In the mid-1970s an idealistic young lawyer uncovers endemic corruption in the heel of Italy. He flees his homeland before the Mafia can silence him, settling in Scotland and becoming a successful restaurateur. Nearly four decades later he and his daughters are again embroiled in a mammoth international police operation to nail the same brutal mafia clan and its collaborator, a prominent UK businessman. The novel chronicles a cycle of escape, betrayal, revenge, retribution and eventual redemption. A shocking revelation sets the scene for a dramatic finale.The story shows how chance events can hijack lives and spin them away from what seemed to be their set course.

Geoff Brown led a life of addiction and slow decay.Drugs, crime and ennui pervaded every part of his day-to-day alienation.He dragged his way out of the pit without resorting to God or alcohol or any of the other crutches people commonly use.Here is his story. Pray your children don't make the same mistakes.~ ~ ~This is the 2019 expanded edition of the 2012 bestselling memoir Hammered, telling the true story of the author's twenty years plus of drug dependency and the resultant lifestyle as experienced in Australia.This new edition contains more than 20,000 extra words and gives a better insight into the emotional impact of the journey and more detail on the recovery.~ ~ ~"Fascinating, and very easy reading."~Joe Lansdale, author of the Hap & Leonard series~ ~ ~"This is a hard journey well shared and a book that risks real sadness to tell its human truth."~Kris Saknussemm, cult novelist and multimedia artist~ ~ ~"This book is to Australia what Trainspotting is to Scotland."~R.B. Clague, author