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Clandestino
Peter Culshaw
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Sachbuch / Biographien, Autobiographien
Beschreibung
A decade ago, Manu Chao's band, Mano Negra, toured Colombia by train, negotiating with government troops and rebels - an episode described at the time as 'less like a rock'n'roll tour - more like Napoleon's retreat from Moscow'. That's Manu in a nutshell. He does everything differently. He is a multi-million selling artist who prefers sleeping on friends' floors to five-star hotels, an anti-globalisation activist who hangs out with prostitute-activists in Madrid and Zapatista leader Comandante Marcos in Chiapas, a recluse who is at home singing in front of 100,000 people in stadiums in Latin America or festivals in Europe.
Clandestino has been five years in the writing, as Peter Culshaw followed Manu around the world, invited at a moment's notice to head to the Sahara, or Brazil, or to Buenos Aires, where Manu was making a record with mental asylum inmates. The result is one of the most fascinating music biographies we're ever likely to read.
Rezensionen
Any story which features a band playing shows on trains around Colombia or on cargo ships sailing up and down South America is always going to be colourful ... <i>Clandestino</i> is a great read ... As tales of unlikely global stars go, this is well worth your time.
The definitive biography of Latin music star and activist Manu Chao - an epic, at times perilous journey that took him from the wilds of Mexico to Buenos Aires to a refugee camp in the Sahara.
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A carnival of photojournalism and trans-continental reportage ... Culshaw is a disciplined and talented biographer ... a fine story.
Thoroughly researched ... has plenty to say to the committed fan
Excellent ... <i>Clandestino</i> is part travelogue, part-history, and a thumpingly good book.
To distil the nature of Chao's elusive genius requires a bold author and a special kind of book - and Peter Culshaw has risen to the task...a compelling story, brilliantly told... By the journey'
One of the many fine qualities of Culshaw's book - part biography, part personal chronicle of his time with Chao - is that he doesn'
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Prepare for controversy: a lot of music books are boring - really, really, stark bollock boring. This one isn't: Eschewing discographies, chart-fact drivel and technical jargon Culshaw embarks on a world tour with one of its most interesting musicians and - next to Gabriel Garcia Marquez -combining travel writing and biography in a way that'
Manu Chao is a nomadic non-conformist, bard of the dispossessed and pied piper of the poor ... An engaging new biography ... Culshaw does a fine job keeping track of the musician's helter-skelter movements ... he's also strong when analysing Chao'
Manu Chao? He was a pain in the arse when he was four. And he still is!
