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Sing Backwards and Weep

By: Mark Lanegan
Narrated by: Mark Lanegan
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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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Wow what a story. How The Screaming Trees ever put out the music they did is astonishing. A confessional tale which I’m sure would have been brutal for Mark to look back on.

Drugs are for mugs

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It's corona time so I stayed up until dawn for 3 days crocheting and listening to this book. Loved it, as crushing and tumultuous as it was. Most memorable moment? The pink water. How was the narrator? Being read to by one of my fave vocalists is okay I suppose. Sequel please!

Addictive

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I loved this. Lanegan’s voice is comforting as he strips back to bare bones and tells his life story. This is a honest look at the life of an addict. Sometimes sad, often funny and always confronting. I highly recommend

Sing backwards and weep… a hard gritty re telling of a life less ordinary

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one of the saddest and most heart-wrenching books I have ever read or listened to. it is utterly brilliant.

Brilliant sadness

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So many pieces of the Lanegan and wider Seattle story threaded together with caustic honesty and brought to life through Mark’s trademark baritone rumble. I wept.

Brutal

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I was so sad that this book ended. What a life he had lived. Always intelligent and entertaining, Marks narration of this book really touched my soul. I hope he has found peace and happiness on the other side.

Captivating

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Wow what a roller coaster ride ! Fully got me back into the trees again. RIP mark what a amazing and twisted tale you have.

Stunning

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I listened 2 years after Lanegan’s death. Haunting. Provocative. A compelling listen. Lanegan’s monotone, matter of fact tone evoked a sense of realism. Recommended.

Tragic, compelling

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Such a good book. if you're a trees fan, you'll love it. If you're a grunge fan, you'll like it too, but if you're a stupid loser than its probably not for you. So if you're cool and edgy, with a open mind and a sweet lil heart, like mark had; get it!!

The Howling Branches singer is a good writer

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If only I could listen to Mark speak for 50 hours longer. An absolute masterpiece.

Devastatingly raw, honest and oddly inspiring

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