Infinite Dreams: The Life of Alan Vega

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 18 Ιουν 2024 - 352 σελίδες
Best known for co-founding the early punk duo Suicide, Alan Vega lived a complex and labyrinthine life, driven by a desire to express himself uncompromisingly through art. From his first sketch in art class at Brooklyn College to the 2021 release of the album Mutator five years after his death, Vega continues to shock and inspire.
This first-ever biography of Vega tells the story of the man’s life and art, beginning with his early attempts to live a “normal” life and his epiphanic encounter with Iggy Pop in 1969. Although becoming a performer on stage had been at the bottom of Vega’s list of lifetime ambitions, Iggy changed his mind: he needed music to truly express his vision. Infinite Dreams goes on to describe Vega’s many experiments across a variety of media, including the partnership with Marty Rev that became Suicide, which challenged audiences to look deep inside themselves and to not settle for distractions.
A raw but engaging exploration of a man whose artwork, music, and philosophy inspired thousands, written by award-winning author Laura Davis-Chanin together with Liz Lamere, Alan Vega’s wife and long-term creative collaborator.
 

Περιεχόμενα

MEMORIES ARE NOISE 1 America Is Killin Its Youth
3
2 The Candy Store
9
3 Stranger
27
4 Old Wives Tales
35
5 Dust Devil
47
6 Reimagined
57
7 MIA
69
8 Permute
73
15 Novel
171
16 Nosedive
183
17 Root
197
18 Dantes Homecoming
205
THE ELEGANCE OF HE WHO DEFINITIVELY EMBODIED THE FLIPSIDE OF ROCK N ROLL 19 Consonant
219
20 Confrère
239
21 Kill the Fatted Calf
253
22 Infinite Mercy
265

9 A Dog with Two Tails
81
10 Bestial
97
11 Gloria
109
HEY ITS A BETTER WORLD SOMEWHERE ELSE 12 Liz
139
13 aint my song
145
14 Keeper of the Flame
155
23 Aftershock
273
24 Sincere
289
Legacy
309
Index
327
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Laura Davis-Chanin is the author of The Girl in the Back: A Female Drummer’s Life with Bowie, Blondie, and the ’70s Rock Scene, which was a Billboard top ten music book for 2018 and won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. She is also the co-author of I Am Michael Alago, the story of the unique man who brought us the band Metallica. She is currently working on a screenplay adaptation of The Girl in the Back.
Liz Lamere was Alan Vega’s wife and long-term creative collaborator. They met in 1985 when she was a corporate lawyer at a major Wall Street firm and played drums in a punk band, SSNUB. She co-wrote, co-produced, and recorded numerous songs with Vega. Now, she spearheads the ongoing release of recordings from the “Vega Vault,” a vast library of unreleased albums, songs, and sound recordings. She oversees the Vega archives of works on paper, extensive writings of lyrics, poetry and fine art Vega created until his passing in 2016.Lamere has recorded two solo albums "Keep it Alive" and "One Never Knows" on In the Red Records. She has toured internationally with Alan Vega and as a solo artist.

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