Bøger af Paolo Hewitt

Between 1994 and 1996, music writer Paolo Hewitt spent the greater part of his life on the road with Oasis, in the U.K., Europe and America. He came back with tales that would cement the legend of the brawling, effing, hedonistic, charismatic, confessional and extraordinarily talented Gallagher brothers, Noel and Liam, and their group. Hewitt is a rare and perceptive fly-on-the-wall during the band's hectic rise to the height of their powers, as their first two albums are released to the kind of excitement scarcely seen in British rock music since the sixties. Hewitt takes the Gallaghers' story right back to their parents' roots in Ireland, and the descriptions of Noel and Liam's childhoods in working-class Manchester reveal the seeds of their determination to make Oasis the force it became. Getting High is an illuminating, funny, sometimes shocking reminder of how big a band can get, and how quickly the insanity sets in. Oasis have today sold in excess of 70 million records worldwide. Hewitt's intimate account of this explosive and beloved band, in their prime, is a rock classic and a riveting narrative."Paolo is the only person to speak about what it was like on the road with us because he's been there. He's been there, he's seen it, he's done it."Noel Gallagher "Top read." Melody Maker "Unlimited access to all areas of the Oasis bandwagon is the ace up this biography's sleeve." Q "10/10 - sometimes you get what you pay for." Esquire "By adopting a fly-on-the-wall approach and writing Oasis's story as though it were a novel rather than a straight biography, he succeeds in entertaining, informing and occasionally putting you inside the head of the Gallagher brothers." Hot Press "In Getting High we get closer to the real Oasis, not the tabloid fancies, the music press stereotypes of Noel the genius, Liam the wanker and three other blokes who don't count. Hewitt paints an engrossing and uplifting portrait of one of the most important bands of the decade." The Word and Issue "Getting High is refreshingly well written" Total Guitar "Compelling drama" Manchester Evening News "If you only buy one book about Oasis, then make sure it's this one."FHM "This well-researched tome chronicles many a pivotal moment in Oasis's history and is filled with plenty of ribald anecdotes."NME "Head and shoulders above every other Oasis book. I hated finishing it so much I read it again." Irvine Welsh

Milo leads a lonely childhood marked by the absence of his mother, aboutwhom he knows next to nothing. His father has gone to work in the city, leavinghim in the care of his three elderly aunts, who give him his freedom to distracthimself by the lake where he lives. In this lake, Milo discovers a fish egg ofunusual size, and when it hatches, a magnificent golden fish is born. Milo isonly half surprised when strange creatures, including a toad man, becomeinterested in his secret discovery. He soon meets and frees a fiery younggirl named Valia, who was held prisoner by the toad man, and the two are forcedto flee, guided by the golden fish, to “the other side” of the lake. . . the flip side underneath, one of many parallel worlds that areconnected through the lakes, rivers, and oceans. In this parallel universe, anevil wizard wields power, driven by blind vengeance, with the toad mandoes his bidding.  Milo finds himself the subject offascination, fear, and excitement by the elf-like population, who aren’tsure what to do with him, until he sets out on an adventure to protect them fromthe evil wizard. Along the way, he finally encounters his mother, who turnsout to be a sorceress from this world, and the polar opposite power of the evilwizard. He’s the lost scion of a new generation and wizards, and he neverknew it (even though his three aunts and the golden fish did). Milo is the keyin this battle; if the wizard manages to capture him, there will be no moreopponents in the world on this side of the lake, meaning he could extend hisdomination and carry it even further, leading the conquest of the multipleparallel universes . . . A beautifully illustrated,family-friendly, magical adventure in the vein of Amulet and The Wizard ofOz.The first of three self-contained story volumes.

Paolo Hewitt has known Paul Weller since they were both teenagers in the depths of Woking, through his ascent to fame with The Jam, the halcyon years of The Style Council and for all of his critically acclaimed solo career.

The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw provides the first full appreciation of a man too long forgotten by the world of football, and, along with a forthcoming film based on Friday's life, with a screenplay by co-author Paolo Hewitt, this book will surely give him the cult status he deserves.