Together alone : the story of the Finn brothers / Jeff Apter
- Bib ID:
- 7289169
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Apter, Jeff, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- North Sydney : William Heinemann, 2010
- Northe Sydney, NSW : William Heinemann, 2010
- ©2010
- 1 online resource (352 pages).
- ISBN:
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- 1864716002 (epub : :)
- 9781864716009 (epub)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9781864716313 (kindle : :)
- Summary:
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"A story of breakthroughs, breakdowns, sibling rivalry and respect - and some of the best pop songs this side of Lennon and McCartney. To rattle off the hits of Neil and Tim Finn reads like a checklist of recent pop history. And to think it all began in sleepy rural Te Awamutu - a town whose name had a 'truly sacred ring', as Neil would famously recount. It was a town where Brian Timothy Finn fell in love with the Beatles, an obsession that would also work its way straight into his younger brother Neil's DNA. Success for the brothers was a long time coming: it took several turbulent years in Split Enz - an art-pop band Neil would join in 1977, despite Tim's reservations - before they produced a genuine hit and connected with the mainstream. And it was achieved by one of Neil's songs, 'I Got You', which wasn't the sweetest pill brother Tim had ever tasted. After all, Split Enz was his band, his odyssey, his obsession. When the Enz came undone, their paths split. Neil led world-beaters Crowded House, while Tim immersed himself in a series of bold if not always successful solo projects. Eventually the brothers reunited, leading to 'Woodface', an album considered by many to be Crowded House's finest. Yet that house proved to be a little too crowded, and Tim was fired from the band, before reuniting with Neil again for two hugely rewarding Finn records, though neither came without their fair share of fraternal conflict. Today, the Auckland-based Finns - both OBEs, ARIA Hall of Famers and proud fathers - remain as popular and credible as at any time in their respective careers. Based on interviews, critical analysis, extensive research and more than 30 years of Finns watching and listening, Together Alone is the first biography written about the Finn brothers: Tim, the 'closet drummer' and accidental bandleader, Neil the guarded family man" -- Website.
- Notes:
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- Imprint: RHA eBooks Adult.
- Selected discography.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Audience: Specialised.
- Description based on print version record
- Subject:
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- Finn, Neil, 1958-
- Finn, Tim, 1952-
- Crowded House (Musical group)
- Split Enz (Musical group)
- Composers -- Australia -- Biography
- Composers -- New Zealand -- Biography
- Rock groups -- Australia -- Biography
- Rock groups -- New Zealand -- Biography
- Rock musicians -- Australia -- Biography
- Rock musicians -- New Zealand -- Biography
- Compositeurs -- Australie -- Biographies
- Compositeurs -- Nouvelle-Zélande -- Biographies
- Groupes rock -- Australie -- Biographies
- Groupes rock -- Nouvelle-Zélande -- Biographies
- Musiciens rock -- Australie -- Biographies
- Musiciens rock -- Nouvelle-Zélande -- Biographies
- Composers
- Rock groups
- Rock musicians
- Social Science - Sociology - General
- Society & culture: general
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Australian
- Copyright:
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 2010
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