Gigantic: The Story of Frank Black and the

Gigantic: The Story of Frank Black and the "Pixies"

by JohnMendelssohn (Author)

Synopsis

The Pixies were a shock to the system. Emerging from their first rehearsal held in a squalid Boston basement, they were soon the toast of the UK and Europe - the new saviours of rock 'n' roll. Forerunners of grunge and with a repetoire of seriously weird songs, they made a virtue out of eccentricity. Then when mega-stardom threatened, Pixies' songwriter and singer Charles Thompson, a.k.a. Black Francis, ditched the band, rechristened himself Frank Black and insisted he hated the group...until deciding to reform it for a sell-out tour in 2004!

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Edition: 01
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Published: 10 Jan 2005

ISBN 10: 184449490X
ISBN 13: 9781844494903

Author Bio
John Mendelssohn has been writing about music off and on since long before 'Wuthering Heights'. The Guardian said, Worth the price [of Bloomsbury's 2003 anthology of music writing The Sound and the Fury] alone is John Mendelssohn's superb dismantling of the NWA myth... He also writes for the stage, acts, and directs, and composes and arranges, and designs.