Beck hansen biography book
Going behind the scenes of the musician's live performances, recording sessions, and everyday life, this intriguing, lavishly illustrated biography profiles.
A rock journalist takes readers behind the music of Beck and into his life as the grandson of an avant-garde Fluxus movement leader....
Beck: The Art of Mutation - Softcover
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Chapter One: Even in His Youth
"I didn't have that social know-how, I didn't have those cliques. I was on...my own island....It really liberated me to just form my own universe, really form my own view of the world.
Beck Hansen's single Loser was the anthem of the slacker generation and since then he has had two million-selling albums Mellow Gold, and Odelay.I wasn't influenced by what all, the other kids did. I was able to step back from the culture at the time."
The man we know today as simply Beck was born in Los Angeles at 11:59 P.M. On July 8, 1970, as Bek David Campbell.
His parents, David Campbell and Bibbe Hansen, were an artistically inclined couple who would prove to be a considerable influence on Beck's art. He was the younger of two; and his brother, Channing, would follow his own creative path over the years.
Born and raised in the Great White North of Canada, David Campbell grew up the son of a preacher man. His father, a Presbyterian minister, filled the young lad's head with classical and choral music fr
