WHAT’S EXACTLY THE MATTER WITH ME?: MEMOIRS OF A LIFE IN MUSIC
Book ID/图书代码： 11684014B67885
English Summary/英文概要： What’s Exactly The Matter With Me? is a first-person account of an extraordinary life and pilgrimage through the most fascinating years of American and English musical culture. This is a story of dreams, success, destruction, and miraculous resurrection; the incredible, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring story of one of the greatest songwriters in American music—and also one of the most elusive and mysterious.
P.F. Sloan was one of the most prolific and influential geniuses to emerge from the golden age of the 60s, and a pioneer of folk-rock. Between 1965 and 1967, 150 of his songs were recorded by major acts, and 45 of those made the charts. No other songwriter has ever come close to achieving so great number of hits in such a short period of time.
From his little studio at Dunhill Records, P.F. Sloan was a veritable hit-machine, writing for The Mamas & The Papas (that’s Sloan’s infectious guitar lick on ‘California Dreamin’), Jan & Dean (the falsetto you hear on most of their hits is Sloan’s), Barry McGuire (the brilliant and controversial ‘Eve Of Destruction’), Johnny Rivers (‘Secret Agent Man’), The Turtles, The Fifth Dimension, and many, many more.
He wrote so many songs, in fact, that Dunhill sold him as seven different acts. Unsurprisingly, he wound up exhausted and broken, thus beginning a long journey into the wilderness—a journey of UFOs and psychiatric hospitals, healing and survival, and, ultimately, redemption.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《音乐的自我探寻之旅》是一本以第一人称记下的精彩生活与朝圣历程，主要记录了英美音乐文化史上最迷人的岁月。这是一个有关于梦想、成功、毁灭与奇迹般的重生的故事；是一个令人难以置信，心跳加速同时充满启发的故事，有关于美国音乐史上一名伟大，同时也最令人捉摸不透与神秘的词曲作家。
P•F•索罗恩是黄金60年代时期新兴的一名多产且极具影响力的音乐天才，同时也是民谣摇滚乐的先锋人物。1965-1967年间，他的150余首作品由主流歌手演唱，其中45首打入流行榜单之上。可以说，再也没有任何一名词曲作家能够在如此短的时间内获得如此巨大的成就。
从他在邓希尔工作室中工作时起，P•F•索罗恩就已经是一名名副其实的热门歌曲写手，并曾为爸爸妈妈乐队、简与迪恩、巴瑞•马奎尔、强尼•瑞雯斯、海龟、第五维度以及许多其他著名乐队及歌手执笔。他创作了许许多多的精彩乐曲，事实上，邓希尔也曾多次推荐他。当然，他最终精疲力竭，极近崩溃，并从此开始了漫长的疯狂之旅----探索UFO，拜访心理医院，愈合及重生，最终获得救赎。（DC）
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About the Author/作者介绍： P•F•索罗恩是一名传奇词曲作家及表演艺术家。1945年生于纽约飞利浦•加利•司克林，50年代与家人移居加利福尼亚州并于14岁那年录制了自己的首支单曲“吾心唯爱”。很快他便成为了洛杉矶月界的一名主要人物，在流行音乐的黄金时期---60年代中期创作演唱了无数大热单曲。
S•E•费恩伯格是一名剧作家、剧本顾问及加利福尼亚州幽默大师。14岁时便成为了一名P•F•索罗恩的忠实粉丝，近期还与P•F•索罗恩本人合著了“路易！路易！”一部基于路德维希•贝多芬生平故事改编的音乐剧。
P.F. Sloan is a legendary songwriter and performer. Born Philip Gary Schlein in New York in 1945, he moved to California with his family in the late 50s and recorded his first single, ‘All I Want Is Loving,’ at the age of 14. He soon became a key figure on the Los Angeles music scene, writing and appearing on dozens of hit records during pop’s golden age in the mid 60s.
S.E. Feinberg is a playwright, script consultant, and humorist based in Topanga Canyon, California. He has been a P.F. Sloan fan since he was 14 and recently co-wrote, with P.F. Sloan, Louie! Louie!, a musical based on the life of Ludwig van Beethoven.
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