A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage -- Joe Jackson

<b>Part memoir, part discourse on the art of music. . . . This is an intelligent, thoughtful look into the mind of an artist.--<i>New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/> Since the release of his first best-selling album <i>Look Sharp</i> in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a famously private person, whose lack of interest in his own celebrity has been interpreted by some as aloofness. That reputation is shattered by <i>A Cure for Gravity</i>, Jackson's enormously funny and revealing memoir of growing up musical, from a culturally impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, through London's Punk and New Wave scenes, up to the brink of pop stardom. Jackson describes his life as a teenage Beethoven fanatic; his early piano gigs for audiences of glass-throwing skinheads; and his days on the road with long-forgotten club bands. Far from a standard-issue celebrity autobiography, <i>A Cure for Gravity</i> is a smart, passionate book about music, the creative process, and coming of age as an artist.<br><i>Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award Finalist</i><br><br><br><b>Author:</b> Joe Jackson<br><b>Publisher:</b> Da Capo Press<br><b>Published:</b> 11/01/2000<br><b>Pages:</b> 296<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.98lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 9.04h x 5.98w x 0.75d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 978030681001