One Last Song
Conversations on Life, Death, and Music
Published on 13. October 2020
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-1-4197-3820-3 (ISBN)
Description
An ironically upbeat book that asks some of today's most inimitable musicians which song they would choose to be the last one they ever hear
If you could choose the last song you'd hear before you died, what would it be and why? Your favorite song of all time? Perhaps the one you danced to at your wedding? The song from that time you got super stoned and just let the chords speak to you? It's a hard question that Mike Ayers has thought about for years.
In One Last Song, Ayers invites 30 musicians to consider what song they would each want to accompany them to those pearly white gates. Weaving together their explanations with evocative illustrations and poignant interludes-what your song to die to says about you, what songs famous people have died to, and more. The book offers insight into the minds of famous artists and provides an entry point for considering how integral music is to our own personal narratives.
If you could choose the last song you'd hear before you died, what would it be and why? Your favorite song of all time? Perhaps the one you danced to at your wedding? The song from that time you got super stoned and just let the chords speak to you? It's a hard question that Mike Ayers has thought about for years.
In One Last Song, Ayers invites 30 musicians to consider what song they would each want to accompany them to those pearly white gates. Weaving together their explanations with evocative illustrations and poignant interludes-what your song to die to says about you, what songs famous people have died to, and more. The book offers insight into the minds of famous artists and provides an entry point for considering how integral music is to our own personal narratives.
Reviews / Votes
An intriguing, but rarely considered question from the endless realm of pop music hypotheticals * Rolling Stone * Endlessly entertaining * Time Magazine * Sometimes the most morbid of questions lead to the most fascinating answers * Esquire * "oddly entertaining...full of surprises" * Kirkus *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Abrams
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 185 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4197-3820-3 (9781419738203)
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E-Book
10/2020
Abrams
€21.99
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Persons
Mike Ayers has been an arts and entertainment journalist and editor for outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, GQ, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Billboard, and many more. He is currently an executive editor at Money magazine, where he steers coverage of stories that examine the intersection of culture and money.