{"product_id":"a-cure-for-gravity-a-musical-pilgrimage-9780306810015","title":"A Cure for Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Part memoir, part discourse on the art of music. . . . This is an intelligent, thoughtful look into the mind of an artist.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Since the release of his first best-selling album \u003ci\u003eLook Sharp\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eA Cure for Gravity\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eA Cure for Gravity\u003c\/i\u003e is a smart, passionate book about music, the creative process, and coming of age as an artist.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRalph J. Gleason Music Book Award Finalist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Da Capo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780306810015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 5.98w x 0.75d","brand":"Joe Jackson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635527512220,"sku":"9780306810015","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4bd6cf57-9fd7-49eb-be51-b895d72abff2.jpg?v=1603839804","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-cure-for-gravity-a-musical-pilgrimage-9780306810015","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}