Changeling: The Autobiography of Mike Oldfield
by Mike Oldfield
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Author: Mike OldfieldEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Published: 2008-05-01
ISBN: 0753513072
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Virgin Books
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Book Review: As A Writer, Mike Makes A Great Musician
Summary: 3 Stars
Oldfield's music has been a big part of my life since 1973, and although I've been vaguely aware of his various psychological difficulties -- shyness, panic attacks, borderline autism -- I never thought much about them. His autobiography deals frankly with them in illuminating detail, more than it deals with his music or musical inspiration. He is a singular artist and these insights into his psyche make for fascinating reading.
Unfortunately (as another reviewer noted) Michael has chosen to write without a ghost writer. Surprisingly for someone so capable of weaving musical lines together, his writing is scattershot and ill-organized. Incidents from his childhood and adulthood collide, without common themes, and he frequently takes off on tangents which interrupt the flow. It's a stream-of-consciousness style with odd weight given to minor incidents and major sections of his life -- wives, kids, music -- barely mentioned. Understandably prose is not his area of expertise, but he has done everything else he's attempted so extremely, extremely well that the bar was higher here. Even Mick Fleetwood's autobiography was better written than Changeling.
Oh well, it's still nice to add it to my Oldfield library.
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