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Sing Backwards and Weep

By: Mark Lanegan
Narrated by: Mark Lanegan
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About this listen

The Sunday Times best seller.

From the back of the van to the front of the bar, from the hotel room to the emergency room, Mark Lanegan takes us back to the sinister, needle-ridden streets of Seattle, to an alternative music scene that was simultaneously bursting with creativity and saturated with drugs. He tracks the tumultuous rise and fall of Screaming Trees, from a brawling, acid-rock bar band to world-famous festival favourites with an enduring legacy, and tells of his own personal struggles with addiction, culminating in homelessness, petty crime, and the tragic deaths of his closest friends.

Gritty, gripping and unflinchingly raw, Sing Backwards and Weep is about a man who learned how to drag himself from the wreckage, dust off the ashes, and keep living and creating.

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Critic reviews

"Mark Lanegan - primitive, brutal, and apocalyptic. What's not to love?" (Nick Cave, author of The Sick Bag Song and The Death of Bunny Munro)

"A stoned cold classic." (Ian Rankin)

"Mark Lanegan writes like he sings, from the pained heart of a damaged soul with brutal honesty." (Bobby Gillespie)
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A brilliantly read, brutally honest story. Love his music (not the drugs) . R. I. P Layne

Lanegan

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Couldn't stop listening. On the one hand a music biography, on the other a vision into the mind of a drug addict with ravenous drive & single minded ruthlessness. A brilliant & brutal account of a tortured youth.

Brutal

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An honest, insightful, miserable look into the life of the only vocalist to rival jeff Buckley's brilliance. gut wrenchingly sad and twisted, funny and very addictive. this is by far the best autobiography I've ever encountered. and hearing Lanegan himself reading it, you can't help but feel like he sees you as a valued friend as he walks you through his horrendous addiction, and the highs and lows of being arguably one of the top 3 most important Seattle musicians to break out in the early 90's

Honest

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The most brutally honest, dark and humorous rock bio you will ever read.

Forget the usual glamourised rock and roll stories.

This is grim, dark… and beautiful.

Listen to Old Scratch while you slip into Sweet Oblivion.

The greatest rock bio ever!

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I'm hooked on this memoir, on my 4th listen and still can't get enough.

Addicted

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Love Mark Lanegan,
This is a excellent and eye opening account of the perils within entertainment and addiction.
Wonderfully written and told.

Honesty, integrity and respect

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Having Lanegan read his own words makes this amazing story perfect. Couldn't stop listening irrespective of how dark and twisted it got. Mark's writing style is spot on - witty, succinct - he never lost ne at any point.

Brutally honest, intense and really funny

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Fantastic story read by the man who lived and breathed it, not just a great singer and lyricist but an amazing story teller.

Fantastic story

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Great book, but hard to listen to at times. It's amazing to here how far down someone can go.

Detailed story of addiction

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Simply brilliant...mind blowing insight into the mind of of a “grunge” legend! Never heard of Mark Lanegan but now he is all I listen to

Wowed

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