Randy Bachman’s Tales from Beyond the Tap is an atypical rock star memoir. It is not a careening down-and-dirty kiss-and-tell-all (unless you count the story about seeing Tina Turner naked). It is an open-hearted collection of musical memories and opinion from one of Canada’s most beloved elder statesmen. The book reads the way Bachman’s CBC Radio show Vinyl Tap sounds—full of affable…
Denise Donlon
Denise Donlon is a former president of Sony Music Canada, vice-president of MuchMusic and MuchMoreMusic, and executive director of CBC English radio. She is currently producing a new TV show that will debut in May 2013.
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He’s Our Man
It takes a combination of head and heart to capture the great Canadian troubadour March 2013
Early in this Leonard Cohen biography, the writer Sylvie Simmons quotes Virginia Woolf, who said, “A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand.” It struck me as a bit of disclaimer as, even at 570 pages, I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen is a comprehensive but not exhaustive…