Book of Life

Conway, Deborah
Book of Life

Book of Life

Conway, Deborah

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You think you know Deborah Conway? You think seeing her scowling and striding and smouldering in her music videos over the years means you know who Deborah Conway is? She figures you probably don't know the half of it. And there's a lot to know.


If you have listened to any of Deborah's iconic songs and were half-curious about their origins; if you have ever wondered whatever happened to that chick who covered herself in Nutella and was photographed shovelling cream cakes into her mouth; if you gave a nanosecond's thought to whose bare arse adorned the giant billboard ads for jeans in the 1980s and how much someone could get paid to do that; if you liked Tracy Mann's vocals in Sweet and Sour but asked yourself, 'did she really sing them?'; if you thought Running On Empty was a classic before it became a cult phenomenon and need behind-the-scenes gossip, now's your chance to find out all this and so much more.


Conway pulls back the curtain on the fevered world of 1980s post-punk, the spectacular rise and fall and rise of one of the more obstreperous women in Australia's music industry, a woman who has straddled the high arts and the low without losing her footing or her mind. A woman who said no to the system and whose fierce independence has seen her produce her best work.


Welcome to the good, the bad and the ugly of an extraordinary and independent life from the vantage point of a music insider (and outsider) with a deep need to tell the truth about it all.

Author:   Conway, Deborah
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
ISBN:  

9781761069383


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   03 October 2023
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.

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You think you know Deborah Conway? You think seeing her scowling and striding and smouldering in her music videos over the years means you know who Deborah Conway is? She figures you probably don't know the half of it. And there's a lot to know.


If you have listened to any of Deborah's iconic songs and were half-curious about their origins; if you have ever wondered whatever happened to that chick who covered herself in Nutella and was photographed shovelling cream cakes into her mouth; if you gave a nanosecond's thought to whose bare arse adorned the giant billboard ads for jeans in the 1980s and how much someone could get paid to do that; if you liked Tracy Mann's vocals in Sweet and Sour but asked yourself, 'did she really sing them?'; if you thought Running On Empty was a classic before it became a cult phenomenon and need behind-the-scenes gossip, now's your chance to find out all this and so much more.


Conway pulls back the curtain on the fevered world of 1980s post-punk, the spectacular rise and fall and rise of one of the more obstreperous women in Australia's music industry, a woman who has straddled the high arts and the low without losing her footing or her mind. A woman who said no to the system and whose fierce independence has seen her produce her best work.


Welcome to the good, the bad and the ugly of an extraordinary and independent life from the vantage point of a music insider (and outsider) with a deep need to tell the truth about it all.

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Author:   Conway, Deborah
Publisher:   Allen & Unwin
ISBN:  

9781761069383


Pages:   400
Publication Date:   03 October 2023
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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