Ebook {Epub PDF} Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon by Tony Fletcher

 · Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon Drummers (Musicians) Author: Tony Fletcher: Edition: illustrated, revised: Publisher: Omnibus, ISBN: , Length: Author: Tony Fletcher.  · Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon. Keith Moon was more than just rock's greatest drummer, he was also its greatest character and wildest party animal. Fuelled by vast quantities of Author: Tony Fletcher. In Dear Boy, Tony Fletcher has captured lightning in a bottle – the essence of a totally incorrigible yet uniquely generous boy who never grew up, and who changed the lives of all who knew him. From a life distorted by myths of debauchery and comic anarchy, Fletcher has created a searingly personal portrait of the rock bltadwin.rus:

At + pages, Dear Boy is the most exhaustive, thoroughly-detailed, biography on a musician I have ever read. A truly herculean effort on author Tony Fletcher's part. Dear Boy provides a (seemingly almost daily) account of Keith Moon's life, told in the author's voice through an extensive series of interviews with the people who knew Moon best: childhood friends, early bandmates, John. Dear Boy The Life of Keith Moon. Tony Fletcher — in Music. Author: Tony Fletcher. File Size: MB. Format: PDF, ePub, Docs. Download: Read: Download». Keith Moon was more than just rock's greatest drummer, he was also its greatest character and wildest party animal. Tony Fletcher's Keith Moon biography. INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW EDITION. The first edition of Dear Boy was published precisely twenty years after Keith Moon's death. This was less a matter of cold calculation than cool circumstance: I worked on the book for years, and when I finally finished writing it, my UK editor saw that the likely publication date would fall so close to the unfortunate.

Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon. Keith Moon was more than just rock's greatest drummer, he was also its greatest character and wildest party animal. Fuelled by vast quantities of drink, drugs. The Life of Keith Moon. Keith Moon was more than just rock’s greatest drummer, he was a phenomenal character and an extravagant hell raiser who – in a final, uncharacteristic act of grace – actually did die before he got old. This new edition includes a newly written afterword that considers Moon’s lasting legacy, the death of John Entwistle and The Who’s ongoing career in the new millennium. Tony Fletcher is the bestselling author of major biographies on Keith Moon, the Smiths, and R.E.M., as well as a memoir, a novel, and a history of the New York City music scene. Born in northern England, and raised in South London, where he started his own music magazine, Jamming!, at the age of thirteen, he emigrated to New York City in the late s.