{"product_id":"holding-the-note-9781035023974","title":"Holding the Note","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eESSAYS ON ARETHA FRANKLIN, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, BOB DYLAN, PAUL MCCARTNEY, LEONARD COHEN, BUDDY GUY, MAVIS STAPLES, PATTI SMITH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In \u003ci\u003eHolding the Note\u003c\/i\u003e, David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe portrays a series of musical lives – Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more – and their unique encounters with the passing of that essential element of music: time. These are intimate portraits of some o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable, not just for the essays' expertise and vividness, but for the aeons he spends talking to his subjects and those around them * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of articles by David Remnick can stand as literature. ... He treats the reader as an informed, intelligent equal * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eAlways up close and personal, always tenacious and informed by deep background, and always vivid and veracious * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e[A] standout collection of pieces . . . What’s most remarkable is [Remnick's] ability to give due at once to the artists’ larger-than-life musical legacies and their all too human fallibilities * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003eWritten over the past three decades, these are keenly observed, deeply felt, and judiciously detailed encounters of genuine communion mixing interviews, biography, and analysis, all lyrically and radiantly composed . . . There is acuity here, bemusement, tenderness, and gratitude -- Donna Seaman * Booklist *\u003cbr\u003eRemnick, the intellectually nimble editor of the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, has lately been focusing closely on world politics, but he finds time to profile a number of artists who, having enjoyed early success, ‘were all grappling, in music and in their own lives, with their diminishing gifts and mortality.’. . . There’s dish here . . . and plenty of astute observation . . . A perceptive pleasure for literate music lovers * Kirkus Reviews *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406682890583,"sku":"9781035023974","price":19.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781035023974.jpg?v=1730496755","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/holding-the-note-9781035023974","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}