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A Thousand Threads

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The joyous and electric memoir from beloved music icon Neneh CherryA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A GUARDIAN MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024A BBC CULTURE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024‘Intoxicating . . . Seductive’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Fabulous’ VOGUETop of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut: gold bra, gold bomber jacket, and proudly, gloriously, seven months pregnant. This was no ordinary artist. This was Neneh Cherry.But navigating fame and family wasn’t always simple. In this beautiful and deeply personal memoir, Cherry remembers the collaborations, the highs and lows, the friendships and loves, and the addictions and traumas that have shaped her as a woman and an artist. At the heart of it, always, is family: the extraordinary three generations of artists and musicians that are her inheritance and her legacy.Musician. Songwriter. Collaborator. Activist. Mother. Daughter. Lover. Friend. Icon. This is her story. The perfect Christmas gift for all music and art lovers.’I loved it’ ZADIE SMITH’Enthralling’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO’Thrums with life’ GUARDIAN’A living testament to artistic invention’ OBSERVER

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Weight 0.552 kg
Dimensions 3 × 16.5 × 24.2 cm
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Format

Hardback
Language

Pages

336
Publisher

Year Published

2024-10-3
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Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom
ISBN 10

1911717006
About The Author

Neneh Cherry is a Swedish singer-songwriter, rapper and producer who first achieved global success, in 1988, with 'Buffalo Stance', her sound a groundbreaking mix of music genres. She has released six critically acclaimed studio albums and won two Brit Awards, a MTV Europe Music Award and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. She has collaborated with artists including The Gorillaz, Gang Starr, Michael Stipe, Cher and Four Tet. The Versions, an album consisting of reworked songs from her back catalogue by artist such as SIA, Robyn and others, was released in 2022.
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Thrums with life . . . A Thousand Threads searches for feelings transient and timeless, keeps keeping on, never says maybe
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Rich in atmosphere and detail . . . A vivid tale of love, family, chaos and a creative spirit passed through the generations’

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