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Sing Backwards and Weep

By: Mark Lanegan
Narrated by: Mark Lanegan
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The Sunday Times best seller.

From the back of the van to the front of the bar, from the hotel room to the emergency room, Mark Lanegan takes us back to the sinister, needle-ridden streets of Seattle, to an alternative music scene that was simultaneously bursting with creativity and saturated with drugs. He tracks the tumultuous rise and fall of Screaming Trees, from a brawling, acid-rock bar band to world-famous festival favourites with an enduring legacy, and tells of his own personal struggles with addiction, culminating in homelessness, petty crime, and the tragic deaths of his closest friends.

Gritty, gripping and unflinchingly raw, Sing Backwards and Weep is about a man who learned how to drag himself from the wreckage, dust off the ashes, and keep living and creating.

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"Mark Lanegan - primitive, brutal, and apocalyptic. What's not to love?" (Nick Cave, author of The Sick Bag Song and The Death of Bunny Munro)

"A stoned cold classic." (Ian Rankin)

"Mark Lanegan writes like he sings, from the pained heart of a damaged soul with brutal honesty." (Bobby Gillespie)
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I had already bought my physical copy of this book and was excited to dive in. By chance I had a look on Audible and saw that, not only was it available here, Lanegan had read it himself. I had to spend a credit on that, and burned through it in a couple of days, listening with every spare minute. It was one of the best listening experiences I've ever had. Harrowing, heartbreaking, and hilarious in equal measures. Lanegan is a master storyteller, as well as a genius musician. It must've been incredibly hard for him to write and record this, but he's created yet another piece of dark art. I'm a lifelong fan of his music, but even if I'd never heard of him before, this book still would've been amongst my favourites. Thank you for everything big man!

Hilarious, Harrowing, Heartbreaking

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I feel at a loss now its finished. Truly an incredible story - both hilarious and heartbreaking

Breathtaking

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Loved this memoir. Lanegan takes you on a trip, his way. Each chapter takes you on his wonderful, tortured, painful yet magical journey, written and spoken in his unique acerbic balled style. Can't wait until he gives us Part 2. First class Mark, thank you!

Mark Lanegan is a music legend

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I am not a huge Mark Lanegan fan but I loved this alot. If you are wise and into good music this is a must listen. It is not one for listening with the family but it is enjoyable.

This is one of the best

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I was a couple of chapters in to the book when I bought the audiobook as it's read by Lanegan and I was sure his his drugged out tone would make a good book better. I wasn't wrong. I couldn't put it down. loved it from start to finish. I grew up listening to music from America's north west and he has lots of great stories from the early 90's grunge scene. This guy has lived with/slept with/scored drugs for/been in a band with anyone who's anyone from that scene. A must read

best Rock read (listen) for years

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