Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes by Sylvie Simmons is now available in four languages on iTunes and NOOK!
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Sylvie Simmons
Biography
Sylvie Simmons is a renowned British rock writer who misspent her youth and several subsequent decades hanging with bands and taking notes. Her writing has appeared in countless publications and collections including the legendary US magazine Creem and UK’s MOJO, for whom she still writes today.
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Along the way, living variously in London, Los Angeles, France and San Francisco, she acquired an award or two, became the subject of a BBC documentary (The Rock Chick) and wrote a number of highly-acclaimed books. She is the author of Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes; Neil Young, Reflections in Broken Glass; the cult short story collection Too Weird for Ziggy; and, most recently, the international bestseller I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, which she promoted by going on the road for a year with her book and ukulele; like all rock writers, she has an inner rockstar. Her debut album Sylvie was released on Light In The Attic Records in 2014.
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Sylvie Simmons supports Giant Sand on their farewell tour
Catch Sylvie Simmons supporting Giant Sand on their farewell tour!
This weekend Giant Sand Farewell shows
with Sylvie Simmons!
6/10/2016 Felton CA Don Quixote’s Music Hall with Sylvie Simmons
6/13/2016 San Francisco CA Swedish American Hall with Sylvie Simmons plus special guests Brian Lopez and Gabriel Sullivan
6/15/2016 Los Angeles CA Echoplex with Sylvie Simmons
Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes on sale through March 6
Today marks 25 years since the death of Serge Gainsbourg. For the occasion, we’re running a sale on the Kindle version of A Fistful of Gitanes, Sylvie Simmons’s biography of the icon, today through March 6. The discount decreases each day, so move quickly for the best deal!
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UFO Releases
Not Just A Gun But Dancing by Sylvie Simmons
“Not Just a Gun But Dancing,” is a must read, a tale of late-night visitation and sleeplessness by Sylvie Simmons, the award-winning writer and author of best-selling Leonard Cohen biography, “I’m Your Man.” In “Not Just a Gun,” all of the men who have ever shared the narrator’s bed, or her life, come to her ghost-like and she sees them clearly, “all who wanted to be brave and tried but couldn’t.”
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United For Opportunity is proud to release, for the first-time on ebook, a New Expanded Edition of Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes by Sylvie Simmons, the award-winning rock writer and the New York Times Best-selling author of I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen. Originally published in 2001, long out of print and never until now available digitally, A Fistful of Gitanes was the first biography in English to capture Gainsbourg in all his gleeful outrageousness and contradictions, and counted Gainsbourg’s longtime partner Jane Birkin and legendary novelist JG Ballard among its avid fans.
Simmons’s work will stand as the definitive take on a dizzying genius. This new edition, which includes an expanded discography, will be available digitally in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Japanese is available exclusively through Amazon.com here.
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