Description
“Mark Lanegan-primitive, brutal, and apocalyptic. What is to not love?”
-Nick Cave, creator of The Unwell Bag Song and The Dying of Bunny Munro
Whilst Mark Lanegan first arrived in Seattle within the mid-Eighties, he used to be simply “an smug, self-loathing redneck waster searching for transformation via rock ‘n’ roll.” Little did he realize that inside of lower than a decade, he could upward thrust to reputation because the entrance guy of the Screaming Bushes, then fall from grace as a low-degree crack broker and a homeless heroin addict, the entire even as staring at a few of his closest buddies rocket to the leading edge of common track.
In Sing Backwards and Weep, Lanegan takes readers again to the sinister, needle-ridden streets of Seattle, to another track scene that used to be concurrently bursting with creativity and dripping with medicine. He tracks the tumultuous upward thrust and fall of the Screaming Bushes, from a brawling, acid-rock bar band to global-well-known pageant favorites that scored successful #five unmarried on Billboard’s Selection charts and landed a infamous efficiency on David Letterman, the place Lanegan gave the impression wearing a recent black eye from a brawl the night time prior to. This e book additionally dives into Lanegan’s non-public struggles with dependancy, culminating in homelessness, petty crime, and the tragic deaths of his closest buddies. From the again of the van to the entrance of the bar, from the resort room to the emergency room, onstage, behind the scenes, and in all places in among, Sing Backwards and Weep reveals the abrasive underlining underneath probably the most romanticized many years in rock historical past-from a survivor who lived to inform the story.
Gritty, gripping, and unflinchingly uncooked, Sing Backwards and Weep is a e book approximately extra than simply an peculiar singer who watched his desires capture fireplace and incinerate the bottom underneath his ft. As an alternative, it is a few guy who realized learn how to drag himself from the wreckage, mud off the ashes, and stay dwelling and growing.
