# A Cure For Gravity

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- Book: [A Cure For Gravity](https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-jackson/a-cure-for-gravity) ([A Cure For Gravity.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-jackson/a-cure-for-gravity.md))
- Authors: [Joe Jackson](https://www.bookquiver.com/joe-jackson)
- Publisher: da_capo_press
- ISBN: 978-03-0681-001-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2000-11-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Since the release of his first best-selling album Look Sharp in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a famously private person, whose lack of interest in his own celebrity has been interpreted by some as aloofness. That reputation is shattered by A Cure for Gravity , Jackson's enormously funny and revealing memoir of growing up musical, from a culturally impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, through London's Punk and New Wave scenes, up to the brink of pop stardom. Jackson describes his life as a teenage Beethoven fanatic his early piano gigs for audiences of glass-throwing skinheads and his days on the road with long-forgotten club bands. Far from a standard-issue celebrity autobiography, A Cure for Gravity is a smart, passionate book about music, the creative process, and coming of age as an artist.