{"product_id":"9780306810015","title":"A Cure For Gravity: A Musical Pilgrimage","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Part memoir, part discourse on the art of music. . . . This is an intelligent, thoughtful look into the mind of an artist.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Since the release of his first best-selling album \u003ci\u003eLook Sharp\u003c\/i\u003e in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a famously private person, whose lack of interest in his own celebrity has been interpreted by some as aloofness. That reputation is shattered by \u003ci\u003eA Cure for Gravity\u003c\/i\u003e, Jackson's enormously funny and revealing memoir of growing up musical, from a culturally impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, through London's Punk and New Wave scenes, up to the brink of pop stardom. Jackson describes his life as a teenage Beethoven fanatic; his early piano gigs for audiences of glass-throwing skinheads; and his days on the road with long-forgotten club bands. Far from a standard-issue celebrity autobiography, \u003ci\u003eA Cure for Gravity\u003c\/i\u003e is a smart, passionate book about music, the creative process, and coming of age as an artist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRalph J. Gleason Music Book Award Finalist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grand Central Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43076165697597,"sku":"9780306810015","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780306810015_p0.jpg?v=1774995791","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780306810015","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}