Together Alone: The Story of the Finn Brothers by Jeff Apter

Together Alone: The Story of the Finn Brothers by Jeff Apter

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781741668162
Author: Jeff Apter
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: William Heinemann
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2010
Format: Paperback
Pages: 344 pages
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Faint mark on tail front cover. Slight bend to front cover. Pages have sunned. Interior and binding are still excellent.

A story of breakthroughs, breakdowns, sibling rivalry and respect - and some of the best pop songs this side of Lennon and McCartney.

To rattle off the hits of Neil and Tim Finn reads like a checklist of recent pop history. And to think it all began in sleepy rural Te Awamutu - a town whose name had a 'truly sacred ring', as Neil would famously recount. It was a town where Brian Timothy Finn fell in love with the Beatles, an obsession that would also work its way straight into his younger brother Neil's DNA.

Success for the brothers was a long time coming: it took several turbulent years in Split Enz - an art-pop band Neil would join in 1977, despite Tim's reservations - before they produced a genuine hit and connected with the mainstream. And it was achieved by one of Neil's songs, 'I Got You', which wasn't the sweetest pill brother Tim had ever tasted. After all, Split Enz was his band, his odyssey, his obsession.

When the Enz came undone, their paths split. Neil led world-beaters Crowded House, while Tim immersed himself in a series of bold if not always successful solo projects. Eventually, the brothers reunited, leading to Woodface, an album considered by many to be Crowded House's finest.

Yet that house proved to be a little too crowded, and Tim was fired from the band, before reuniting with Neil again for two hugely rewarding Finn records, though neither came without their fair share of fraternal conflict.

Today, the Auckland-based Finns - both OBEs, ARIA Hall of Famers and proud fathers - remain as popular and credible as at any time in their respective careers.

Based on interviews, critical analysis, extensive research and over 30 years of Finns watching and listening, Together Alone is the first biography written about the Finn brothers: Tim, the 'closet drummer' and accidental bandleader, Neil the guarded family man. (publisher blurb)

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