Nirvana Book

This book was first published as a hardback at GBP20.00 by Helter Skelter imprint Firefly in late 2004 but Soundcheck Books is proud to be paperbacking it taking it to a wider audience. Whilst it did well in the UK on publication it never reprinted or sold outside Europe as a year later Helter Skelter MD Sean Body was sadly diagnosed with the leukaemia that was to take his life. Oddly despite never being published in America the book still won an ARSC Certificate of Excellence for rock research. It is a work for Nirvana fans only (and there are many of them the band has over 11 million Facebook likes compared to a 'mere' 7 million for the Rolling Stones) as it covers the minutiae of every recording session they did right from the first demos recorded in Kurt Cobain's bedroom as far back as December 1982. Please note this is not a cut and paste book centred around their discography. The author interviewed people who were intimately connected with the sessions including producers so the reader gets fascinating glimpses into how the records were made and how various sounds were created.Jovanovic also contextualises everything looking at how each album came about and what shape the band (and particularly Cobain) were in at the time. 'Painstaking' is the word that springs to mind when one reads this labour of love. This new edition is fully revised and updated.Read More