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Killing Bono
"The best book I have ever read about trying to make it in the music business" - Elton John
"A fantastic book, which manages the difficult trick of being simultaneously very funny and very sad." - Bob Geldof
"I was Neil McCormick's fan in school. He was much cooler than me, a much better writer and I thought he'd make a much better rock star. I was wrong on one count. He's written a great book" - Bono
Kris Kristofferson: a throwback to an old mythic America
Kris Kristofferson, Cadogan Hall 29 Jul 2010
For a singer-songwriter who can barely play guitar, struggles with the harmonica and only has a few notes in his gravelly voice, Kris Kristofferson has come a long way. At 74, standing tall and straight at the centre of an otherwise empty stage, he held a London audience completely spellbound by the magical power of an open spirit and truly great songs.
You can’t argue with classics like ’Me And Bobby McGee’, ’Sunday Morning Coming Down’, ’Help Me Make It Through The Night’ and ’For The Good Times’, and no one here was in the mood to. Every scuffed note and wobbly harmonica solo (“Well it ain’t Bob Dylan but it’s all we’ve got,” joked Kristofferson after one particularly lame effort) was treated with indulgent delight.
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