Tonight the Music Seems So Loud - Sathnam Sanghera

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER'This affecting exploration of the troubled genius’s impact is packed with anecdote, sharp analysis and social context' – The Guardian'A beautiful, frequently extraordinary book. Part biography, part social commentary and part love letter, it somehow does full justice to the magnificent man it examines' – James O'Brien'Happy Publication Day to this deeply-felt book. It’s written not just from the perspective of a social historian but with such heart, too' – Nigella LawsonHe wrote one of the biggest hits of our age in ‘about an hour’ in his childhood bedroom.He would go on to collaborate with some of the greatest musicians of all time, from Aretha Franklin to Stevie Wonder.He was a pop star who bleached his hair blonde, wore tiny shorts and, at the same time, critiqued his own image mercilessly.He lived through the AIDS crisis and one of the most homophobic periods of British history and yet when he finally came out, he did so boldly and unapologetically.Wham! were the first Western pop group to play in Communist China and he repeatedly broke boundaries in music too.Ten years after his death, George Michael is still everywhere: the annual success of ‘Last Christmas’, new covers of his songs, and endless memes on social media.Tonight the Music Seems So Loud is at once a kaleidoscopic portrait of one of Britain’s most beloved musicians and an account of a strange and turb
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