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Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance
by Dean Wareham

Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance
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Author: Dean Wareham
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-03-13
ISBN: 1594201552
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The

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Book Review: A true rock & roll romance.
Summary: 5 Stars

Dean Wareham, singer songwriter, guitarist, cult icon, tells us all about the highs and indifferences of a life spent in music, near fame, but just off the radar of chart success.

Wareham's personality comes over strongly in this book, where he manages to convey his feelings well, and in a sense reading this book feels like being sat by the fire with an elder statesman of modern indie music. The frontman of Galaxie 500 and latterly Luna, and now Dean and Britta, reveals in some great detail not only the thrills of being in a band for a living, but the tedium that goes with touring and recording, whilst sounding neither pompous or spoilt. Wareham's memoir should serve as an education on the pitfalls of romancing the modern music scene to anyone tempted to form a band, and does serve as a timely historical document of the massive changes in the music industry as it failed to deal with the internet age.

A charming and riveting book at all times, Wareham spares no emotional blushes with his easy style that seems at times almost too candid, and pulls no punches with a dry wit and occasional simmering rage that befalls some suprising figures in the music industry. This book would make a great biopic if it wasn't for the fact that he makes it all seem so very ordinary when his life has in reality been anything but.

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