Captain Beefheart: The Biography
by Mike Barnes
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This is the first fully researched in-depth biography to appear of this seminal figure, and in it Mike Barnes gives equal weight to Don Van Vliet's second career as a successful and highly collectable fine artist.Tags
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A very well written biography (one of the best you'll find in the field of "popular" music) and one which shines a harsh light on its subject when it needs to.
Penetrating and de-mythologising biography of Vliet.
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- Music, Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 782.42166092 — Arts & recreation Music Vocal music [formerly: Dramatic music and production of musical drama] Secular forms of vocal music Songs General principles and musical forms Traditions of secular songs {genres} Rock songs modified standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
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- ML420 .C2535 .B3 — Music Literature on music Literature on music History and criticism Biography
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