Autorami są Paulo Hewitt i John Hellier.
A 5 star review by Record Collector!
This comprehensive biography of Steve Marriott is as close as we’re going to get to extracting the truth about Britain’s finest white soul exponent. From Mod antics with the Small Faces to his brief superstar tenure with Humble Pie and beyond, Marriott was a musical and psychological conundrum par excellence, the enigma of which still unravels to this day.
All Too Beautiful is an exhilarating, if infuriating, tale of Marriott’s chaotic lifestyle with a litany of relatives, ex-wives and partners recalling his menagerie of personalities and mood swings.
Unfortunately, this is a complex story of extraordinary talent, missed chances, exotic highs and frightening lows and yet Marriott’s determination to remain in control at all costs marks him out as a Mod maverick of the highest order. While his peers were consolidating their finances during the 1970s, Marriott was dangling between fame and destruction; arriving in limousines with Humble Pie one moment and filching potatoes from fields and hot wiring his cottage from a pylon the next. Ironically, the mans most settled period came towards the late 1980s, with a hectic tour of pubs and clubs before he tragically passed away in a house fire in 1991, before Brit Pop could fully canonise his influence.
This book succeeds as much as is possible in detailing Marriott’s brief but eventful tenure on planet Earth and yet even these 400 pages aren’t enough to penetrate the complex mysteries that went into making up Mods most complex creation.
Simon Wells
The story of Steve Marriott is almost too awful to be true. Born in London’s East End, he went from being fed jellied eels in his pram to teenage stardom as the lead singer of one of the most popular groups of the sixties, The Small Faces. After that there was success in America with his band Humble Pie and all the drugs and drink he could consume, three marriages and countless girlfriends and groupies and ever increasing penury. At the end he was to die at 44, if not penniless, poor, having generated millions for other people, burned to death in a fire at his home. Daily Mail
Additional Praise For The First Edition
• One of the best books I’ve read about the backwaters of rock music. Ray Connolly, Critic’s Choice, Daily Mail
• Compulsive reading for anyone interested in rock ’n’ roll. Daily Express
• A rich portrait of the man described as the greatest white soul-singer of them all. Book of the Month, Music Week
• A wonderful book… wonderfully researched, eminently readable. **** Uncut
• As close as we are going to get to the truth about Britain’s finest white-soul exponent. ***** Record Collector