A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley
'Jeff Buckley was a pure drop in an ocean of noise.' – Bono

It was his take on John Cale's cover version of Leonard Cohen's song 'Hallelujah' that made the number famous and his album – Grace – that caused everyone from Led Zeppelin and U2 to Radiohead and Coldplay to look up to Buckley as an illuminating spirit. But who was the man behind the music?

Buckley’s many personal letters are revealed for the first time. His struggle with writers block is explored, as is his ongoing battles with the concept of stardom, his desire for escape and the attempts to deal with the unavoidable legacy of his equally gifted father, Tim Buckley.

In A Pure Drop, his friends, peers, enemies, lovers and collaborators all speak of the Jeff Buckley they knew, or in some cases, they thought they knew.

... A Tragedy delicately handled." - Q Magazine
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A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley
'Jeff Buckley was a pure drop in an ocean of noise.' – Bono

It was his take on John Cale's cover version of Leonard Cohen's song 'Hallelujah' that made the number famous and his album – Grace – that caused everyone from Led Zeppelin and U2 to Radiohead and Coldplay to look up to Buckley as an illuminating spirit. But who was the man behind the music?

Buckley’s many personal letters are revealed for the first time. His struggle with writers block is explored, as is his ongoing battles with the concept of stardom, his desire for escape and the attempts to deal with the unavoidable legacy of his equally gifted father, Tim Buckley.

In A Pure Drop, his friends, peers, enemies, lovers and collaborators all speak of the Jeff Buckley they knew, or in some cases, they thought they knew.

... A Tragedy delicately handled." - Q Magazine
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A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley

A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley

by Jeff Apter
A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley

A Pure Drop: The Life of Jeff Buckley

by Jeff Apter

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Overview

'Jeff Buckley was a pure drop in an ocean of noise.' – Bono

It was his take on John Cale's cover version of Leonard Cohen's song 'Hallelujah' that made the number famous and his album – Grace – that caused everyone from Led Zeppelin and U2 to Radiohead and Coldplay to look up to Buckley as an illuminating spirit. But who was the man behind the music?

Buckley’s many personal letters are revealed for the first time. His struggle with writers block is explored, as is his ongoing battles with the concept of stardom, his desire for escape and the attempts to deal with the unavoidable legacy of his equally gifted father, Tim Buckley.

In A Pure Drop, his friends, peers, enemies, lovers and collaborators all speak of the Jeff Buckley they knew, or in some cases, they thought they knew.

... A Tragedy delicately handled." - Q Magazine

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780857120502
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Publication date: 11/11/2009
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 300
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

The former Music Editor of Australian Rolling Stone, Jeff Apter is the author of the critically and commercially successful books, Fornication: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Story, Never Enough: The Story of The Cure, A New Tomorrow, The Silverchair Story, amongst others. He lives in Sydney with his wife, two children and a hefty music collection.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Prologue x

Chapter 1 'Hello/Goodbye' 1

Chapter 2 The White-Trashville-Disneyland-Nazi-Blues 24

Chapter 3 The Guitar-Loving Monks Of Cherokee Street 47

Chapter 4 'Dude, I'm fucking home. This is it.' 73

Chapter 5 Café Days 98

Chapter 6 Amazing Grace 121

Chapter 7 On The Road 143

Chapter 8 Inside The Star Making Machinery 165

Chapter 9 The Wizard Of Oz 185

Chapter 10 'Jeff wasn't supposed to come to Memphis - and fucking die!' 203

Coda 227

Selected Discography 238

Acknowledgements 241

Index 243

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