{"product_id":"a-cure-for-gravity-a-musical-pilgrimage-9780306810015","title":"A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joe Jackson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Da Capo Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Da Capo Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Music\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a famously private person, whose lack of interest in his own celebrity has been interpreted by some as aloofness. That reputation is shattered by A Cure for Gravity, Jackson's enormously funny and revealing memoir of growing up musical, from a culturally impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, through London's Punk and New Wave scenes, up to the brink of pop stardom. Jackson describes his life as a teenage Beethoven fanatic; his early piano gigs for audiences of glass-throwing skinheads; and his days on the road with long-forgotten club bands. Far from a standard-issue celebrity autobiography, A Cure for Gravity is a smart, passionate book about music, the creative process, and coming of age as an artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Da Capo Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355737645207,"sku":"9780306810015","price":1824.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780306810015.webp?v=1767308975","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-cure-for-gravity-a-musical-pilgrimage-9780306810015","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}