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My Autobiography Bobby Womack Midnight Mover (by Bobby Womack with Robert Ashton)

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My Autobiography Bobby Womack Midnight Mover
 

My Autobiography Bobby Womack Midnight Mover
(by Bobby Womack with Robert Ashton)

$50.00

ISBN: 1844541487

  • 2006 first edition.  303 pages
  • Published by John Blake Publishing Ltd, England.
  • Hardcover with dust jacket.  Black boards.
  • Very good condition.  Minor dust jacket wear and fading.  Inscription at top of free front end paper.

The True Story of the Greatest Soul Singer in the World.  Some photograph illustrations included.  Rare Book.

Bobby Womack is a true legend, a phenomenally gifted musician with 40 albums and 30 million record sales to his name.  He wrote such classic tracks as 'It's All Over Now'  ( a smash for the Rolling Stones0,  'Across 110th Street',   'Lookin' for A Love'  and 'Woman's Gotta Have It.' Their success helped him to escape the ghetto and become a star, but battles with the record industry and drugs almost wiped him out. 

Behind his beautiful music lies a life scorched by more than its fair share of tragedy.  Having trod the harsh edge of the music business for decades, he tells his explosive story for the first time.

Womack weaves a rich and colourful path through the history of soul and R&B and provides a vital link between 1950s gospel and some of the greatest soul, rock and R&B music put to record.

From his poor childhood growing up in Cleveland and his early forays into music with his four brothers in the 1950s, Womack tells how he found success with his family gospel group the Valentinos.  He describes his act being whipped into shape by James Brown, life on the 'chitlin circuit' with Jimi Hendrix, being on the road with the likes of Sam Cooke and Wilson Pickett and recording in the studio with Eric Clapton and Elvis Presley.

The success came at a price.  His personal life was never far from heartache and pain. Womack lost his friend and mentor Sam Cooke when the soul star was gunned down in a motel.  He incurred the wrath of many when, at the age of just 21, he married Cooke's widow Barbara.  His escape from the criticism was to turn to drugs and his friend Sly Stone, leading him to spend years as one of biggest party animals in Los Angeles.

The years of riotous abuse took its toll on Womack and those closest to him, including Janis Japlin, who spent her last night drinking with the singer.  His marriage to Barbara broke up, his brother Harry was brutally murdered and he tragically lost two sons.

Womack's talent always shone through and he played guitar on Aretha Franklin's Natural Woman, provided the licks for Sly and the Family Stone's masterpiece 'Family Affair' and wrote George Benson's smash hit 'Breezin'.

Now in his 60s, clean and back from the brink Womack is cited as an infleunce by myriad musicians and remanins the epitome of cool.   Honest, insightful and unflinching, this is the authentic voice of a hard-working legend of music whose every day has been lived to the full.

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