A chronicle of a lifetime's passion for gig-going, by one of British television's most respected writers.
Illustrated with photographs and ephemera from the author's private collection..
But more than that, it's an honest, touching, and very funny story of friendship, love, creativity, and mortality, and a testimony to music's ability to inspire and heal.
Foreground Music captures the energy and power of life-changing gigs, while tracing the evolution of forty years of musical movements and subcultures.
Orridge of Throbbing Gristle while tripping on LSD.
Smith of the Fall, convinces Paul Weller to undertake his first acting role, and attempts to interview Genesis P.
Duff goes on pub crawls with Mark E.
Foreground Music describes Music performances that range from a Cliff Richard gospel concert, attended by Duff at the age of ten, to the fourteen-year-old Duff's first rock show, where the Jam played so loudly he blacks out, to a Joy Division gig that erupted into a full-scale riot.
It is an engaging memoir of a life lived to the fullest, and a vivid, insightful, and humorous exploration of what Music writing might be. -Mark Gatiss The result of a lifetime's passion for gig-going by one of British television's most respected writers, Foreground Music is at once enthusiastically detailed and tremendously illuminating-of both the concert moment and its place in popular culture.
Charming, very funny and often achingly melancholy, Graham Duff's memoir is suffused with a genuine passion for live Music and its (occasionally eccentric) power. "
Foreground Music is an absolute gem.
A chronicle of a lifetime's passion for gig-going, by one of British television's most respected writers
