Gutter Black A Memoir

A memoir review.

Gutter black a memoir.

Get this from a library. Read by phil o brien audio. Dave mcartney was one of new zealand s best known. Gutter black a memoir by dave mcartney published by harper collins rrp 50.

It charts hello sailor s emergence from the mandrax mansion in pre. Having worked on it for well over a decade dave mcartney delivered the completed manuscript for this book just weeks before his tragic death last year aged 62. A tale of creativity misadventure success and excess. Gutter black by dave mcartney part 1.

Nz musician was lucky enough to be granted permission to publish an excerpt in our following june july 2013 issue. Audio listen duration 17. And it s a wonderful book worth reading worth having. So if you are going to read any book this year make.

But mainly yes goneville is a memoir and a touching account of music taking over and defining bollinger s life at an impressionable age. Notably schmidt ended his list with gutter black. A memoir is described by its publisher harpercollins as a candid funny irreverent and sometimes shocking story. Memoir of the late dave mcartney one of the founding members of hello sailor.

He had delivered the manuscript just a few weeks out from his ultimate deadline. Gutter black tells a great rock n roll story and more than that the life of a special man in his time. I hope someone sends don walker a copy. It is perhaps not quite the book it might have been but it is certainly a far better book than we might have expected.

Trevor reekie talks to hello sailor s graham brazier and harry lyon about life with and without dave mcartney as well as mcartney s posthumous autobiography gutter black a memoir. Dave mcartney an intimate raw memoir by a founding member of one of nz s iconic rock bands hello sailor. If i only had time by john rowles with angus gillies new holland 2012. A memoir harper collins is available from may 1.