Mark Lanegan Libri

The most honest and unsparing grunge memoir ever committed to the page by one of the greatest alternative rock stars of the past thirty years

The COVID diaries of the alternative rock star and bestselling author of SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP

Leaving California is the new collection by Mark Lanegan, compiling 76 poems that merge the line of harsh reality and paranoia, beauty and reflection, and the wisdom of the escape artist. There are amends and curses amongst stories that one can only tell once they’ve seen everything and everything collapse. In many ways this is part two of Lanegan's best selling 2020 novel, Sing Backwards and Weep, where loose ends are tied and others left for dead.A brilliant work of true transformation, these poems also chronicle Lanegan's exit from California for the literal greener pastures of Ireland. As someone who has survived it all, he must have known this move was the next level of perseverance. There’s a pacing anxiety leading up to the move, turbulence in the transition, and a calm consideration once he’s settled.Perfect bound with felt cover.

Book of lyrics and more by ace collaborator and solo artist Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age, with a preface by John Cale (Velvet Underground) and a foreword by Moby

Musicians choose favourite tracks from their back catalogue and provide telling insights into their creation, meaning or mood. A founding member of Seattle rock band The Screaming Trees, Mark Lanegan's solo career started in the late 1980s when he began writing and recording The Winding Sheet with contributions by Kurt Cobain. In the 30 years since, he has established himself as an artist as protean as he is prolific. Collaborating with everyone from Moby to Queens of the Stone Age, Dean Ween to Greg Dulli, he has generated a body of work that is, by turns, mournful, lusty, brutal, comforting, nihilistic, hopeful, grieving, but always deeply human. Known to his friends as 'Dark Mark' or 'Old Scratch', Lanegan is a legendary hardass - stony on a good day, explosive on a bad one. A difficult interview who takes shit from no-one. Here, he cleaves himself open about the few things he loves: music, art, creating with his friends.

Er hätte der Jim Morrison unserer Zeit sein können. Ausgestattet mit einer unverwechselbaren Stimme und Charisma, stieg Mark Lanegan Anfang der Neunzigerjahre mit seiner Band The Screaming Trees zu einer der Topbands der Grunge-Ära auf. Um dann umso tiefer abzustürzen. Drogensucht, Obdachlosigkeit und Straßenkriminalität waren die Folge. Doch während viele seiner Freunde wie Kurt Cobain das Jahrzehnt nicht überlebten, gelang Lanegan die Rückkehr auf die Bühne und war bis zu seinem Tod 2022 außergewöhnlich produktiv. Die unveränderte Neuausgabe von Mark Lanegans Autobiografie jetzt unter dem Originaltitel »Sing backwards and weep«.