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Porcelain by Moby (Paperback, 2016)
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There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene of the late 1980s and early 90s. This was the New York of Palladium, of Mars, Limelight, and Twilo, an era when dance music was still a largely underground phenomenon, popular chiefly among working-class African Americans and Latinos. And then there was Moby-not just a poor, skinny white kid from deepest Connecticut, but a devout Christian, a vegan, and a teetotaler, in a scene that was known for its unchecked drug-fueled hedonism. He would learn what it was to be spat on, literally and figuratively. And to live on almost nothing. But it was perhaps the last good time for an artist to live on nothing in New York City ... And so by the end of the decade, Moby contemplated the end of things, in his career and elsewhere in his life, and he put that emotion into what he assumed would be his swan song, his good-bye to all that, the album that would be in fact the beginning of an astonishing new phase in his life, the multimillion-selling Play. Porcelain is about making it, losing it, loving it, and hating it. It's about finding your people, and your place, thinking you've lost them both, and then, finally, somehow, creating a masterpiece. As a portrait of the young artist, Porcelain is a masterpiece in its own right, fit for the short shelf of musicians' memoirs that capture not just a scene but an age and something timeless about the human condition. Push play.Product Identifiers
PublisherFaber & Faber
ISBN-139780571321483
eBay Product ID (ePID)223035744
Product Key Features
Book TitlePorcelain
AuthorMoby
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicMusic
Publication Year2016
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages416 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height235mm
Item Width155mm
Item Weight615g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorMoby
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 07 Aug, 2019
Brilliant book - excellent value
Brilliant book great value. Large print so easy to readVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 12 Jan, 2020
A visionary
Gripped by the first page. Brilliant writing style.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 13 Jan, 2021
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Funny and very easy to read .Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 14 Dec, 2020
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