Wild Thing: The short, spellbinding life of Jimi Hendrix

野生：吉米·亨德里克斯傳記

基本信息

Author：Philip Norman

Format：Paperback | 400 pages

Dimensions：152 x 232 x 32mm | 520g

Publication date：20 Aug 2020

Publisher：Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Language: English

ISBN10：1474611494

ISBN13：9781474611497

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書籍簡介

在他孤獨地去世近50年後，亨德里克斯一直是音樂天才的不朽象徵，但不幸的是，他的生命被縮短了。《瘋野生》將是第一部將他短暫一生的輝煌與悲傷結合在一起的傳記，並試圖闡明他的死亡情況。

亨德里克斯徹底改變了古典搖滾，為吉他創造了全新的詞彙。在舞台上，他突破了六十年代的界限，用舌頭舔着吉他的琴絃，把它壓平，橫跨在上面，甚至還放火燒它。但私下裏，他彬彬有禮，靦腆害羞，性情温和。諾曼將探索這些矛盾的敍述讓我們從西雅圖的亨德里克斯的根他的品德有問題的和迷人的倫敦的上流社會的生活,當倫敦是世界上最“擺動”的資本,然後回美國的一系列歷史性的户外搖滾音樂節的十年。

《瘋狂的東西》將是一場無與倫比的藝術慶典，也是一個扣人心絃的年代編年史，現在的神話時代。它還將調查他死亡的特殊情況，部分像是偵探小説，因為它講述了搖滾寓言中*警示意義的部分。經過這麼多年的謠言和猜測，吉米的鬼魂也許終於要安息了。

Almost 50 years after his lonely death, Hendrix is the abiding symbol of musical genius cut tragically short. Wild Thing will be the first biography to bring together the splendour and sadness of his brief life, and to attempt to unravel the circumstances of his death. 

Hendrix revolutionised classic rock, inventing a whole new vocabulary for the guitar. Onstage he pushed the boundaries of Sixties permissiveness, fellating the strings of the guitar with his tongue, lying it flat and straddling it, even setting fire to it. Yet in private he was polite, shy and sweet-natured. Norman will explore these contradictions in a narrative that takes us from Hendrix's roots in Seattle to his louche and glamorous life in Mayfair, when London was the world's most 'swinging' capital and then back to the US with the series of historic outdoor rock festivals that rounded out the decade. 

Wild Thing will be a celebration of matchless artistry, and a gripping chronicle of those now mythical times. But it will also investigate the peculiar conditions of his death, part whodunnit as it tells the most cautionary of rock 'n' roll parables. After all these years of rumour and speculation, Jimi's ghost may finally be laid to rest.

作者簡介

菲利普·諾曼出生於倫敦，在懷特島長大。22歲時，他加入了《星期日泰晤士報》(the Sunday Times)，很快就獲得了作為Atticus專欄作家的名聲，並因其撰寫的人物介紹(包括伊麗莎白·泰勒、小理查德和卡扎菲上校等)而名聲大噪。英美暢銷書《呼喊!》的作者。他還寫過保羅·麥卡特尼、巴迪·霍利、米克·賈格爾、埃爾頓·約翰和約翰·列儂的權威傳記。

Philip Norman was born in London and brought up on the Isle of Wight. He joined the Sunday Times at twenty-two, soon gaining a reputation as Atticus columnist and for his profiles of figures as diverse as Elizabeth Taylor, Little Richard and Colonel Gaddafi. Author of the UK and US bestseller Shout!, he has also written the definitive lives of Paul McCartney, Buddy Holly, Mick Jagger, Elton John and John Lennon.