"Bonkers": The Dizzee Rascal Story - Softcover

Lester, Paul

 
9781849384063: "Bonkers": The Dizzee Rascal Story
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1849384061 ISBN 13: 9781849384063
Verlag: Omnibus Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Dylan Kwabena Mills, better known as Dizzee Rascal, has evolved from cutting-edge pioneer of grime and hip hop into one of Britain's biggest pop stars...And the east London rapper, songwriter and record producer did it without compromising his startlingly original vision and persona. Paul Lester traces Dizzee's career, first as a pirate radio DJ aged 16, then as a member of grime collective the Roll Deep Crew, and finally as a solo artist. He also reveals how Dizzee's distinctive hybrid musical style and skewed observations of low-rent city life helped the 19-year old become the youngest person ever to win the prestigious Mercury Music Prize in 2003 with his extraordinary debut album "Boy In Da Corner". In this no-holds-barred account, read about Dizzee's brush with death in Ayia Napa, his unlikely appearance on BBC2's Newsnight, where he was grilled about politics by Jeremy Paxman, and the stories behind his hits and special projects. It's all in this, the ultimate Dizzee book: "Bonkers: The Story of Dizzee Rascal".

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paul Lester was Features Editor of Melody Maker before leaving to start music and movie magazine Uncut where he was deputy editor until 2006. Since 2007, he has interviewed nearly 100 musicians and actors for the Guardian, Guardian Unlimited Music, the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times and sleevenotes on everyone from Elkie Brooks to The Sex Pistols. He has written nine rock and pop biographies and has co-authored the Virgin Encyclopedia of Rock.

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In "Bonkers", Paul Lester traces Dizzee's development as the East London rapper, songwriter and record producer, of Ghanaian and Nigerian descent, forged a career, first as a pirate radio DJ aged 16, then as a member of grime collective the Roll Deep Crew, and finally as a solo artist. It also reveals how Dizzee's distinctive style - a hybrid of garage, rap, grime, ragga, dancehall and electronica - and skewed observations of low-rent city life helped him become, at 19, the youngest person ever to win the prestigious Mercury Music Prize in 2003 with his extraordinary debut album "Boy In Da Corner". In this no-holds-barred account, read about Dizzee's stabbing in "Ayia Napa", his gradual infiltration of the mainstream: rapping on Band Aid 20's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in 2004, his three Number 1 singles with "Dance Wiv Me", "Bonkers" and "Holiday", and unlikely appearance on BBC2's Newsnight where he was grilled about politics by Jeremy Paxman and joked that he could one day be Prime Minister. Stranger things have happened - and they're all in "Bonkers: The Story Of Dizzee Rascal".

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Verlag
Omnibus Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1849384061
ISBN 13 
9781849384063
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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