Tracey Thorn’s bestseller Bedsit Disco Queen told the story of the Everything But The Girl singer’s journey through the pop world.
Topping the charts along with creative sidekick Ben Watt and the fame, if not fortune, which followed made her voice one of the most recognizable on the British music scene. But what Thorn did not have time or space to tell in her pop memoir was what it was like to be a
singer: her emotions, her moods, her hopes and fears.
What her second book shows, as in her first, is she also has an ability to write. She can pick at the scab of a subject and release some of the unsavoury contents which have been festering under the surface.
Drawing on several interviews with other singers and referencing
extensive research of other writers on the subject of singing, Thorn pulls no punches when it comes to examining her own abilities and those of others. The result is an honest appraisal of what motivates people to stand up in front of hundreds if not thousands of fellow human beings and how they feel about it, whether it rewards them or leaves them a quivering wreck.
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