EAN: 9781474615501

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER "Mark Lanegan-primitive brutal and apocalyptic What's not to love?" Nick Cave "A stoned cold classic" Ian Rankin "Powerfully written and brutally frighteningly honest" Lucinda Williams From the back of the van to the front of the bar from the hotel room to the emergency room onstage backstage and everywhere in between Sing Backwards and Weep reveals the abrasive reality beneath one of the most romanticized decades in rock history-from a survivor who lived to tell the tale When Mark Lanegan first arrived in Seattle in the mid-1980s he was just "an arrogant self-loathing redneck waster seeking transformation through rock 'n' roll " Within less than a decade he would rise to fame as the front man of the Screaming Trees then fall from grace as a low-level crack dealer and a homeless heroin addict all the while watching some of his closest friends rocket to the pinnacle of popular music In Sing Backwards and Weep Lanegan takes readers back to the sinister needle-ridden streets of Seattle to an alternative music scene that was simultaneously bursting with creativity and saturated with drugs He tracks the tumultuous rise and fall of the Screaming Trees from a brawling acid-rock bar band to world-famous festival favourites with an enduring legacy that still resonates Lanegan's personal struggles with addiction culminating in homelessness petty crime and the tragic deaths of his closest friends is documented with a painful honesty and pathos Gritty gripping and unflinchingly raw Sing Backwards and Weep is a book about more than just an extraordinary singer who watched his dreams catch fire and incinerate the ground beneath his feet Instead it's about a man who learned how to drag himself from the wreckage dust off the ashes and keep living and creating

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