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One Last Song

Conversations on Life, Death, and Music

Mike Ayers author Studio Muti illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Abrams

Published:22nd Oct '20

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An ironically upbeat book thatasks some of today's most inimitablemusicians which song they would want to be the last onethey ever hear

An ironically upbeat book that asks some of today’s most inimitable musicians which song they would choose to be the last one they ever hear
 
If you could choose the last song you’d hear before you died, what would it be and why? Your favorite song of all time? Perhaps the one you danced to at your wedding? The song from that time you got super stoned and just let the chords speak to you? It’s a hard question that Mike Ayers has thought about for years.
 
In One Last Song, Ayers invites 30 musicians to consider what song they would each want to accompany them to those pearly white gates. Weaving together their explanations with evocative illustrations and poignant interludes—what your song to die to says about you, what songs famous people have died to, and more. The book offers insight into the minds of famous artists and provides an entry point for considering how integral music is to our own personal narratives.

An intriguing, but rarely considered question from the endless realm of pop music hypotheticals * Rolling Stone *
Endlessly entertaining * Time Magazine *
Sometimes the most morbid of questions lead to the most fascinating answers * Esquire *
“oddly entertaining…full of surprises” * Kirkus *

ISBN: 9781419738203

Dimensions: 236mm x 184mm x 20mm

Weight: 580g

192 pages