The Australian Financial Review’s pick of the year’s books about music and musicians.
But in the next breath he admits to liking conversations, a term that more fairly categorises the contents of this book, which might use the classic QCave and O’Hagan cover everything from Cave’s childhood, through his years of drug addiction to his latter-day work habits and inspirations.
“I feel a kind of empathy with people that I never felt before,” he tells O’Hagan. “It feels urgent and new and fundamental. For the predicament we have all found ourselves in – the predicament of an imperilled life.”After Bono’s book, perhaps the second-most consequential of 2022’s music autobiographies is by the guy who gave U2 its first record deal.
Another life-changing experience came at 21, when Blackwell writes vividly of his life being saved by Rastafarians, after his sailboat was marooned on a remote part of Jamaica’s coast. Far from the bogeymen that Kingston’s English upper crust painted them as, Blackwell realised these gentle, dreadlocked mystics were important contributors to Jamaica’s culture. Seventeen years later, he would sign one named Bob Marley, and help turn him into the most famous Jamaican until Usain Bolt.
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