Reading Fiction Is a Waste of Time Noel Gallagher
Which books exercise musicians love to read?
half-dozen Music's Paperback Writers gives intriguing insights into the music that inspired the authors of some mod classics.
But art flows both ways, so what about the literature that inspires music?
From books that are responsible for entire careers to the iconic rocker who tin can't run into any indicate in reading fiction, we await at the reading habits of a selection of 6 Music favourites.
David Bowie
Never i to do things by halves, the much-missed David Bowie revealed non one but 100 favourite books for a 2013 exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
You lot can find his choices at Davidbowie.com, which include iconic works from the likes of TS Elliot, George Orwell, Anthony Burgess, Tom Stoppard and Truman Capote.
One Australian journalist tried to read all 100 of them. Spoiler: He failed.
Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams chooses Mark Baker'southward harrowing collection of real-life tales from the Vietnam war, Nam, as his favourite book.
"It'south first-person interviews giving dissimilar perspectives on signing up to go to the Vietnam war, then bodily anecdotes from the war itself. Information technology'due south brutal," he told NME in 2015.
And Ryan wasn't the merely person in the music earth to take felt the bear upon of Marker Baker's work.
"The band Fugazi got their name from this book," he added.
Adams, meanwhile, has published two books of his ain; Infinity Dejection (a collection of free-form poesy) and Hello Sunshine (poems and short stories).
Noel Gallagher
Noel Gallagher hates fiction and we mean 'actually' hates fiction. He says he's tried reading novels but can never experience any joy from them.
"I only read factual books," he told GQ magazine in 2013.
"I hateful, novels are but a waste of time. I can't append belief in reality. I merely end up thinking, 'This isn't true'."
However, he is a bully reader of not-fiction, saying he likes to read "about things that have really happened" and says that books like The Kennedy Tapes by Ernest R May, almost the White House during the Cuban Missile Crunch, are the blazon of volume he can "become into."
Laura Marling
Laura Marling is a lover of the classics and she named Jane Austen and The Bronte Sisters as her favourite authors when she was asked about her reading habits by The Guardian in 2008.
But Laura didn't fall for the apparent romance of their work, oh no.
"They're ever fabricated out to be so sweetly romantic, just they're not - they're brutal," she said.
"I dearest the way you lot can fall in beloved with a slice of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that."
She also revealed she was a big fan of Russell Brand'south autobiography, My Booky Wook.
Laura turned six Music presenter before in 2017 playing a selection of her favourite tunes.
Carl Barât
Carl Barât'southward favourite volume reflects his roots with The Libertines, choosing The Fountainhead past Ayn Rand as his favourite read.
The volume is described as the story of a "visionary creative person struggling confronting the dull, conformist dogma of his peers."
"It's nigh 2 architects, ane who's obsessed with this dream and 1 who wants to be an artist," he told NME in 2015, "It's amazing."
Janelle Monae
As well as her work as a musician and actress, Janelle Monae also runs her own record label and uses literature to help her employees produce the best results for Wondaland Records.
All the staff at the label read Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Piece of work in One-half the Fourth dimension by Jeff Sutherland together.
"We knew that if nosotros were going to exist releasing five artists, including myself, we'd need to figure out a way to make sure nosotros were on schedule," she told Billboard magazine in 2015.
"We wanted to find the quickest ways to become quality results nosotros were all happy with. It solves problem on how nosotros write music and how we run the company."
Tim Burgess
The Charlatans' frontman put pen to paper himself when he wrote his autobiography, Telling Stories, which was published in 2012.
In it, he spoke openly almost his own experiences with class-A drugs in the ring's heyday, and his favourite book is ane of the most famous tales of addiction in literature, William Burroughs' Junkie.
"A classic – it'due south about Burroughs' life every bit a heroin addict," he told the NME in 2015 when speaking virtually what he'd been reading on the road. "I've not read it in a long time, merely I wanted to arrive bear upon with it again."
Björk
Information technology's no surprise that Björk'south favourite books aren't especially mainstream and she claims never to read the same volume twice - apart from the diaries of Anais Nin. Born to Cuban parents in France, Nin later settled in the U.s., where she become an established author, almost famous for her journals which span more than sixty years.
She also names Leonora Carrington's fantasy novel The Hearing Trumpet as a huge inspiration on her career.
"This volume is so inspiring! You English should be proud of her. The book seems destined to exist a movie," she told The Guardian in 2012.
"Costless-flowing, spiky imagination. I beloved its freedom, its humour and how it invents its own laws."
Donald Glover
Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, is one of the smartest thinkers in music, and says his favourite books focus on Asperger's syndrome, due to his respect for how the minds of sufferers work.
He names 2 books on the subject as his literary picks.
"I have an obsession with books near kids with Asperger's syndrome. I like the style they think — it suits me," he told GQ mag in 2012.
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Dark-Time past Mark Haddon is smashing. That and Jonathan Safran Foer'south Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close - they're on a split up bookshelf.
"They don't understand what the other books are saying by their facial expressions, but they're perfectly lined-upward."
Van McCann
The Catfish & The Bottlemen frontman'due south favourite book is Mike Skinner'south autobiography, The Story Of The Streets. He revealed his favourite passage from the book to the NME in 2015:
"He tells of riding a BMX into a London manor agents in a Lacoste tracky.
"They go to kick him out until he tells them he has a 100-grand-a-calendar month budget."
Nicky Wire
"Libraries gave us power" is the opening lyric to ane of Manic Street Preachers' best known songs, A Design for Life, so it'south no surprise the band appreciate the importance of literature.
Nicky Wire is such an say-so on his favourite book, that recent editions of Lipstick Traces past Greil Marcus take included a forrard by the Manics' bassist.
He says the book was crucial to the band in their early days and told The Guardian in 2015 information technology "persuaded usa that nosotros could attempt to create art that merely might deeply resonate with people in the fashion that the book had resonated with us."
"Without resorting to cliche, Lipstick Traces is the band's Holy Bible; our cultural equivalent of the Good Book," he says.
"The Manic Street Preachers have taken then much from it; we even stole the title for a compilation album."
"My hardback copy has a Biro inscription in it: 'To Nick love Richey, James and Sean, 28th September 1990.'"
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