Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines: The Life and Music of James Taylor by Mark Ribowsky

Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines: The Life and Music of James Taylor

Mark Ribowsky
416 pages
Chicago Review Press
Jun 2016
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In 1970 a scraggly, antiheroic young man from North Carolina by way of Massachusetts began presenting a comforting new sound, a kind never heard before. Within a year, when young ears sought a new sound, there was &quot;Fire and Rain&quot; and &quot;You've Got a Friend,&quot; and a new Southern California-fed branch of pop music. Taylor was its reluctant leader. Remarkably, Taylor has survived: his 2015 release, <i>Before This World</i>, edged out Taylor Swift and went to #1 on the charts. Today he is in better physical and probably mental condition than during the whirlwind when he influenced music so heavily, the decade when magazines and newspapers printed feverish stories about his gawky hunkiness, his love affair with Joni Mitchell, his glittery marriage to Carly Simon, his endlessly carried-out heroin habit, and sometimes even his music. Despite it all, Taylor has become the nearest thing to rock royalty in America. Based on fresh interviews with musicians, producers, record company people, and music journalists, as well as previously published interviews, reviews, and profiles, <i>Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines </i>is the definitive biography of an elusive superstar.
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Pages 416
Publisher Chicago Review Press
Published 2016
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