Beck!: On a Backwards River
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Jovanovic, Rob, PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber, He has been called "the most important voice of his generation" by Allen Ginsberg. He has called his own music "a satanic K-Tel record that's been found in a trash Dumpster". He was named Bek David Campbell but is now called simply ong>Beckong>, one of the most innovative and unpredictable musicians today. Ever since his accidental smash hit, the Generation X anthem "Loser", ong>Beckong> has repeatedly defied categorization with his top-selling albums Odelay, Mellow Gold, Mutations, and Midnite Vultures, winning critical acclaim, commercial success, and a couple of Grammys. Rock journalist Rob Jovanovic goes behind the music to find that ong>Beckong>'s life story, although less well known, is just as unusual. His grandfather led the avant-garde Fluxus movement in the sixties, his father is a bluegrass musician who has worked with Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, and his mother was a Warhol starlet who adopted the L.A. punk scene. After growing up in Bible Belt Kansas and the ghettos of East L.A., ong>Beckong> experimented with musical genres from blues and folk to hip-hop and punk, playing in Greenwich Village clubs and busking on Hollywood Boulevard. Jovanovic also profiles every song ong>Beckong> has recorded and analyzes his artwork, videos, and TV performances to make ong>Beckong>: On a Backwards River the ultimate source on ong>Beckong> Hansen.