IT TAKES BLOOD AND GUTS

Book ID/图书代码： 00200020C00004

English Summary/英文概要： Skin, the lead singer of multi-million selling rock band Skunk Anansie, is a global female icon. At the 2019 Music Week Women of the Year Awards she received the award for Most Inspirational Artist. An incendiary live performer, she shatters any preconceptions about race and gender, an inspirational role model who for 25 years has been smashing through stereotypes. With her striking visual image and savagely poetic songs, Skin has been a ground-breaking influence both with Skunk Anansie and as a solo artist. Born of Jamaican heritage and brought up in Brixton in London, she is a powerful black woman singing in a genre traditionally dominated by white men. What You Do For Love will include stories of how her grandfather emigrated as part of the Windrush generation to set up a social club in Brixton, and how her father became the first black steward on the Queen’s plane. The book also tells of Skin’s social and cultural activism, how she was one of the first female artists to be openly bisexual, championing LGBT rights at a time when very few artists were out and gay. We follow Skin travelling to West Africa in the late 1990s with Amnesty International, campaigning against FGM, and how in 2000 she became an official patron of FORWARD, the anti-FGM charity.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 皮肤(德博拉戴尔)Skin (Deborah Dyer) 是拥有数百万销量的摇滚乐队Skunk Anansie的主唱，也是全球女性偶像。在 2019年音乐周年度最佳女性奖晚会上，Skin获得了最具灵感艺术家奖。作为最能点燃现场气氛的表演者，她驱散了所有关于种族和性别歧视的偏见，25年以来，她一直是打破墨守成规的一个鼓舞人心的标杆。
以醒目的视觉效应和独有的诗意歌词，Skin无论是对Skunk Anansie乐队，还是作为一个独唱艺术家来说，都有着开创新的影响。牙买加出生的她，在伦敦的布里克斯顿长大，作为在白人男性为主导的传统音乐界，她可谓是一个有着影响力的黑人女性。
这本书讲述了包括Skin的祖父作为温德拉什的一位移民，在布里克斯顿设立了一个类似于同乡会的俱乐部，以及父亲如何成为英女王专机的第一个黑人乘务员。
书中还讲述了Skin的社交和文化活动，以及她是如何成为第一批公开双性恋身份的女艺术家之一，在很少有艺术家公开承认自己是同性恋的时候捍卫LGBT权利的。读者可以看到上世纪90年代末，Skin与国际特赦组织一起前往西非，发起了反对女性生殖器切割的运动，2000年，她又是如何成为了反女性生殖器切割慈善机构FORWARD的官方赞助人。 (Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：‘The epic tale of Glastonbury’s Black British headliner… Skin is one of the Britpop decade’s forgotten epics… Skin’s feet are positioned firmly on the ground throughout; she’s a winningly genial, sweary soul on paper. 4 stars’ -- Jude Rogers, MOJO

‘The pioneering Skunk Anansie frontwoman’s memories offer a very different take on the Britpop era… Skin’s story is one of a rhomboid peg spurning both the round and square hole, drilling dimensions of her own… We now have a lot of language – intersectionality, microaggressions – to describe many of the events in this memoir. However, nothing can really equal candid, first-hand experience, recounted matter of factly here. It would be instructive for anyone who thought they knew the story of the 90s to spend 300 pages in Skin’s Skin.’ ― OBSERVER

‘As a Black gay woman fronting 1990s rock band Skunk Anansie, Skin has broken her fair share of ground, but it has come at a personal cost. This is a story of resilience and courage, prejudice and passion’ ― RED

’One of the most important females in British music of my lifetime.’ -- Colin Murray

’A beautiful, raw and exhilarating book that will leave you feeling empowered.’ -- Fearne Cotton

‘The former Skunk Anansie singer pulls no punches in this heady trawl through her life from tough beginnings in Brixton to work as an LGBTQ+ activist and beyond’ ― The I

About the Author/作者介绍： 露西·奥布莱恩(LUCY O’BRIEN)是一位作家，播音员，和一部描写流行音乐黄金岁月中的女性歌手的，获奖传记《She Bop》一书的作者。她还发表了一系列乐坛明星《麦当娜》、《达斯蒂·斯普林菲尔德》和《安妮·蓝妮克丝》传记。她的文章经常刊登在众多选集中，包括《流行音乐中的少女时代:表演，权威，真实》和《朋克摇滚，那又怎样?》

LUCY O’BRIEN is a writer, broadcaster and author of the award-winning She Bop, a definitive history of women in popular music. She has also published bestselling biographies of Madonna, Dusty Springfield and Annie Lennox. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies including Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music: Performance, Authority, Authenticity and Punk Rock, So What?

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：sold Italian rights to Solferino

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