Tony Clayton-Lea on publications about Abba, Greenwich Village, Fleetwood Mac, 1990s indie, John Grant, Dolly Parton and Britpop
songs other than equal parts life-affirming and desperately sad? Just over 10 years ago, the four members of Abba removed themselves from a self-imposed media exile and granted music writer Jan Gradvall individual interviews for the Swedish financial newspaper Dagens Industri.
There was darkness, too, in New York City’s Greenwich Village, but only on the way from the dressing rooms to the stages in the numerous venues that dotted the area where the likes of Billie Holiday, Tom Paxton and Bob Dylan sang for their supper. Throughoutby David Browne , the author details in a dispirited if pragmatic tone how many of those venues have disappeared .
Documenting such, however, makes for a series of revealing and hilarious ripping yarns, one of which involves an incident in 2018 when, during a speech at an awards ceremony, Stevie Nicks accused her band member ex, Lindsey Buckingham, of “smirking” at her; Buckingham was subsequently fired. Dreams? Loads of those. Sweet dreams? Not so much.
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