Mark Hollis: A Perfect Silence

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Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). The first complete, in-depth biography of the Talk Talk leader draws on scores of new and original interviews with Mark Hollis’s friends, musicians, collaborators and record company personnel to create this important and substantial biography. Ben Wardle, a lecturer in music business at the University of Gloucestershire, has set himself the challenge of getting behind or going over the wall and telling Hollis’ story.

This sumptuous top quality book is brought to you by the same people who produced the recent top notch tomes on Jethro Tull and ELP, which should be recommendation enough before we even begin! For Hollis, it was all about attitude and feel, while the musical technique was secondary:” I don’t think technique is important to music, enthusiasm is, the spirit in which you approach it…the liveness, the ineptitude. As the critic Richard Williams wrote of Hollis at the time of his death, “he was one of the great originals of English music.In the first complete, in-depth biography of the Talk Talk leader, author and music industry insider Ben Wardle has interviewed scores of Mark Hollis' friends, musicians, collaborators and record company executives to complete this important and substantial biography.

Tracing Mark Hollis's life from earliest beginnings through his formative years, author Ben Wardle offers genuine insight into the creative forces which helped shape the sound and songs recorded by Talk Talk.Talking of Talk Talk, I notice that they have started to release the original singles onto digital / streaming / hi-res platforms – Mirror Man / Strike Up The Band came out in Feb and Talk Talk / ? The understated artistry and minimalist beauty of tracks like The Colour of Spring and Watershed makes ‘Mark Hollis’ a truly unique and indelible listening experience. He has written and presented regularly for BBC’s Front Row and hosted a podcast about vinyl for several years.

If there’s anyone here who hasn’t really done Talk Talk yet their 5 albums would be a great project. Ed was many things to many people, but most importantly, Ed’s love and knowledge of music and his eclectic music collection would be the spark that fired up Hollis.He's written a brand new book detailing the life of the late great, and intensely private, Mark Hollis of Talk Talk. Talk Talk may be the visionary sound of one extraordinary mind, but it came about through collective effort – the sounds didn’t come from Hollis, and Hollis couldn’t create it alone.