SIDE BY SIDE: Selected Lyrics

Book number: 92697 Product format: Hardback Author: ROBERT WYATT & ALFIE BENGE

In stock

Bibliophile price £3.00
Published price £14.99


As a founding member of the influential English rock bands Soft Machine and Matching Mole and with a solo career which has lasted for over 40 years, Robert Wyatt has collaborated with artists including Bjork, Brian Eno, Carla Bley, Paul Weller and David Gilmour. His own music remains unclassifiably personal. Alfie Benge is a visual artist, songwriter and pioneering music manager, who has managed Robert's career for over 50 years and is also married to him. Since 1982 they have collaborated on many of Robert's most well-known songs. This unique Faber volume celebrates one of the most enduring creative partnerships of the last half century. Their work is unusual, perceptive, playful, songs that touch your mind and your heart, selected and arranged by the authors themselves and featuring an introduction by Jarvis Cocker. A full presentation of the lyrics, poems, writings and drawings, some of the titles include Dada Was Here, Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road, Pigs, and Vandalusia. The purity and fragility of Robert's singing can lead to the lyrics being overshadowed and finally this is readdressed. Some are fantastically funny like 'Winter of our discotheque' and 'Words take the place of meaning' and some are disturbingly prescient as in Born Again Cretin and NIO (New Information Order). Despite being rendered virtually immobile following his accident, Robert flies in his book so be prepared for lift off. 192pp, illus.

Additional product information

ISBN 9780571360512

Customers who bought this product also bought

EARLY JET FIGHTERS BRITISH AND AMERICAN 1944-1954
Book number: 92158 Product format: Paperback Author: LEO MARRIOTT
Bibliophile price £5.50
Published price £14.99
CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY SET: SANTA
Book number: 91448 Product format: Unknown Author: MARZIPAN AND PAPER ROSE
Bibliophile price £8.00
PATRONISING BASTARDS: How the Elites Betrayed Britain
Book number: 85387 Product format: Hardback Author: QUENTIN LETTS
Bibliophile price £6.00
Published price £16.99
V&A PATTERN: SANDERSON 1954-74 Book and CD-ROM
Book number: 92701 Product format: Hardback Author: MARY SCHOESER
Bibliophile price £4.25
Published price £7.99
SPRING LIGHT: The Anglepoise Story
Book number: 92856 Product format: Hardback Author: JONATHAN GLANCY
Bibliophile price £7.50
Published price £25
YORKSHIRE'S STRANGEST TALES: Extraordinary But True Stories
Book number: 92860 Product format: Paperback Author: LEONORA RUSTAMOVA
Bibliophile price £4.00
Published price £7.99

Browse these categories as well: Lucky Dip Clearance, Literature & Classics, Music & Dance