The first and definitive biography of Robert Wyatt, Britain's greatest cult musician, with an introduction by Jonathan Coe
Marcus O'Dair is a writer, lecturer and musician. He writes on music for the Guardian, Independent and FT. He is also a frequent contributor to BBC Radio 3 and BBC 6 Music. He is also one half of the Ninja Tune act Grasscut, who have performed at the Pompidou Centre and across Europe.
An uplifting, inspiring book ... compelling and entertaining
*Mojo*
English music has produced some fascinating personalities, but few
are as unusual as Robert Wyatt. This excellent book captures his
gentle, generous and intelligent personality, and is incidentally a
very good history of the music scene in England from the sixties
onwards.
*Brian Eno*
I loved Different Every Time ... a great biography and a terrific
book
*Senior Lecturer, The Open University*
Wonderful and a huge pleasure to read ... Brilliantly researched
and well told. Marcus O'Dair has written the book that Robert and
Alfie deserve and I can't give higher praise than that.
*Presenter and Producer, BBC Radio 3*
An informative biography ... makes thrilling reading.
*Daily Telegraph*
A fascinating biography
*London Review of Books*
Praise for Robert Wyatt
'The most eloquently lackadaisical of jazz-loving English
troubadours
*Guardian*
If you don't believe avant-garde political music can be both
playful and polemical, heartfelt and heartbreaking, you need Robert
Wyatt in your life
*NME*
A highly idiosyncratic and intuitively melodic maverick
*BBC Music*
Robert Wyatt is one of the greats of English music
*Geoff Travis, Rough Trade*
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