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Bruford's autobiography not only provides a humorous insight into the daily detail of a successful musician's life but also grapples with the big existential issues of what it takes to be an artist of any sort in the modern world . - David Sinclair: The Guardian April 11 2009
...the text is intimate, clever, concise, and witty a bit like Bill s drumming . - Will Romano: Modern Drummer June 2009
Professorial in its remit and written with a bone-dry wit and an authoritative elegance that will be the envy of many far more high- profile cultural commentators, this might just end up becoming one of the best-informed, most informative textbooks of its time - Marco Rossi: Shindig: April 2009
An engaging and dryly witty style that makes for an easy, can't-put-it-down read...This book addresses matters anecdotal, technical, practical, emotional and philosophical with style, panache and élan . - John Kelman: All about Jazz: March 2009
Head and shoulders above the majority of books in its class.' - Jeff Miers: Buffalo News: March 24 2009
Bruford is a literate biographer and honest . - Steven Rosen: Curled up With a Good Book: March 2009
Its frank, cynical, very amusing, inspiring, thought provoking and highly recommended . -Brent Keefe: Drummer magazine: April 2009
Bill Brufords The Autobiography is one of the most original books you ll ever come across, penned by a man that some would still label a rock star . - Adam Garrie: USA Progressive Music.com: March 2009
The most extraordinary autobiography Ive ever read on music . - David Etheridge: Performing Musician: April 2009
This is an intelligent, articulate and sensitive book . - Andy Robson: Jazzwise Magazine: April 2009
...a terrific autobiography . - Geoff Nicholls: Rhythm: April 2009
His insight is keen, his stories compelling . - Vintage Guitar: June 2009
Bill Brufords story is not just for drummers. It is for all artists, musicians, music lovers, or anyone who wonders what it s really like to spend your life trying to make the music you love . --Neil Peart, Rush, May 2009
An extended treatise on the nature of music itself; not just his place in the pantheon, not just the manifold trials, tribulations and emotional upheavals of the working musician in a marginal genre, but the very essence...Professorial in its remit and written with a bone-dry wit and an authoritative elegance that will be the envy of many far more high-profile cultural commentators. --May 2009
'Frank, cynical, very amusing, inspiring, thought provoking and highly recommended.' 5/5 stars --Drummer Magazine, March 2009
"An extended treatise on the nature of music itself; not just his place in the pantheon, not just the manifold trials, tribulations and emotional upheavals of the working musician in a marginal genre, but the very essence...Professorial in its remit and written with a bone-dry wit and an authoritative elegance that will be the envy of many far more high-profile cultural commentators."
--Shindig Magazine, April 2009
'Frank, cynical, very amusing, inspiring, thought provoking and highly recommended.' 5/5 stars --Drummer Magazine, March 2009
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