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Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley | 
 enlarge | Author: David Browne
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 88085
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 038080624X
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780380806249
ASIN: 038080624X
Publication Date: January 1, 2002
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Condition: Clean, shiny cover, tight binding, minor shelf wear, has minor tanning, has mark on bottom outside pages.
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Product Description
When Jeff Buckley drowned at the age of thirty in 1997, he not only left behind a legacy of brilliant music -- he brought back haunting memories of his father, '60s troubadour Tim Buckley, a gifted musician who barely knew his son and who himself died at twenty-eight. Both father and son made transcendent music that mixed rock, jazz, and folk; both amassed a cadre of obsessive, adoring fans. This absorbing dual biography -- based on interviews with more than one hundred friends, family members, and business associates as well as access to journals and unreleased recordings -- tells for the first time the intriguing, often heartbreaking story of these two musicians. It offers a new understanding of the Buckleys' parallel lives -- and tragedies -- while exploring the changing music business between the '60s and the '90s. Finally, it tells the story of a father and son, two complex, enigmatic men who died searching for themselves and each other.
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 My review on the 1st book of Jeff Buckley November 9, 2008
I find out that there was one simlar in the Dream Brother of Jeff Buckley that we adopted and change our last names ! We kept our first name as I read the Jeff Buckley that is where the simliars are in the book !
I read the book when I had time or after being sick and could not go out !
I had enjoy reading this book when I had it a couple of year ago !
One of the Best Biographies I've Read in 15 years August 12, 2008
I read this book because I love Jeff Buckley's music. I knew very little about Tim Buckley before I picked up the book to read. This is a very well written dual biography of a father and his son, both musicians, both barely famous (though Jeff Buckley has gained greater recognition over the last few years), and both dying at very young ages.
The book begins with Jeff's death and then backtracks to his Father's upbringing, telling the story from Tim Buckley's (the Father) childhood up to Jeff and Tim's death. It provides all the necessary details regarding their music careers, their influences, their backgrounds, etc. The book interchanges chapters between the two men. In other words, one chapter will focus on the life of Tim, and the next chapter will be devoted to Jeff, back and forth from chapter to chapter in this fashion.
The research and detail put into this book is amazingly well developed and detailed. Interviews with close friends and associates of both men are included. The best feature of this biography is that it does not read like a factual history text - this is what happened on this date, etc. Rather, it reads like a novel, including emotions, discussions, reactions, etc. Which all make this biography much more interesting. This book is difficult to put down, and that being said from a person who only knew one of the persons featured (like I said, I bought this book to read about Jeff, not Tim).
The book was so well written, and grabbed my attention so much that I have, since reading it, begun to buy Tim Buckley's music, and one DVD featuring his television appearances. I found it very interesting that Jeff barely knew his father, and yet they have quite similar charactersitics, manners, albeit Jeff was quite independent of his Father in any sense when it came to his music. I personally think the son was a far better musician than his father.
If you are interested in Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, rock music, 60's and 70's rock, 90's rock, or music in general then you will truly love this book. Both Buckley's made their mark on music history, both of their lives were ended way too soon, and this book gives all the details inbetween. I highly recommended it.
True story told well July 28, 2008
Clearly, Jeff Buckley was a troubled young man when he drowned just as his father od'd, at about the same age. Bipolar, at least. Possibly other unmedicated illnesses. The book only speculates because no one knows, but some of the post-mortems by friends are a bit naive about what was really ailing Buckley. Tim Buckley's story is equally well told, and brings to light a tragic tale all but forgotten now. The book inflates Jeff Buckley's musical importance a bit. He's all but forgotten now, too, just as his rock star father was soon after he died. It's a well reported glimpse into the parallel making and unmaking of two related rock stars and how the industry pressured them to death. Great reading, in general.
Everything You Need to Know April 8, 2008
As a Tim Buckley devotee from his first LP, having followed him as a great fan, attended many of his appearances, (even bought, with my high school best friend, the identical kind of lace-up "moccasin boots" mentioned in the book, and somehow ended up hanging out with Carter C.C. Collins and taking him home to play chess with my expert chess-player brother), I was mainly interested in the part of the book about Tim - and then found that learning about his son was just as compelling as reading about someone I felt much closer to. So very sad that their lives had such parallels, so unfortunate for all of us that each of them had to leave us so soon. Now I will see if I can find and listen to Jeff's music as well. Despite his apparent recognition as a musical phenomenon, I was hardly aware of his existence, and don't remember reading or hearing much about him during his career - odd, really, since music has always been so important to me!
At any rate the book is a thorough and detailed examination of the music and the lives of both Buckleys, interwoven in a way that is sometimes confusing chronologically (alternating chapters about each, back and forth), but still fascinating... I must admit toward the end I skipped forward to complete the Tim chapters before going back and finishing reading about Jeff. Anyone who considers her/himself a fan would be interested in reading this book.
Best insight to Jeff Buckley April 9, 2007
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David Browne made it easier for a Jeff Buckley fan to understand the inner workings of Jeff's mind. This book was expertly reported. Browne wrote as both a music journalist- an expert in his field and as a true-blue Buckley fan. If you're a fan of either Tim or Jeff Buckley, buy this book...
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