
The Islander
My Life in Music and Beyond
Chris Blackwell(Author)
Paul Morley(Co-Author)
Gallery Books (Publisher)
Published on 7. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-9821-7270-1 (ISBN)
Description
"Chris Blackwell, like the paradigm-shifting artists he came to support over his sixty-plus years in the music business, never took the conventional route. He grew up between Jamaica and London, crossing paths with Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, and Errol Flynn. After being expelled from an elite British school for rebellious behavior in 1954 at age seventeen, he moved back to Jamaica, and within five years, founded Island Records--the company that would make an indelible mark on music, shifting with the times, but always keeping its core identity intact. The Islander is the story of Blackwell and his cohorts at Island Records, who time and again, identified, nurtured, and broke out musicians who had been overlooked by bigger record labels, including Steve Winwood, Nick Drake, John Martyn, and Cat Stevens"--Amazon.com.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
382 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-9821-7270-1 (9781982172701)
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E-Book
06/2022
Gallery Books
€14.83
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Persons
Chris Blackwell with Paul Morley