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BROOKS, ELKIE: : FINDING MY VOICE: The Elkie Brooks Story. [Author SIGNED copy.]

LONDON.THE ROBSON PRESS/BITEBACK PUBLISHING LTD.,2012.

ISBN 9781849542999.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.]FINE+/FINE. No owner inscrptn but author/subject's handwrittern black ink inscrptn: 'To Gill with love Elkie' to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,white background with subject's portrait colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj with blue and b/w lettering,rear panel with subject's b/w portrait photograph; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,ixpp+1- 289pp [paginated] includes author's foreword,27 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w auto+biographical photographs in 1 block,between pp150/51,list of musicians,backing vocalists,vocalists,crews, lighting technicians,tour managers etc.,that she has worked with; plus [unpaginated] half-title, author/subject SIGNED title page,content list/ table,an epigram,and 4pp blanks at rear of book. An uncommon and rare SIGNED example. Blessed with one of the richest and most distinctive voices in the music business,Elkie Brooks has been entertaining people around the world since the age of fifteen - and even longer,if you count the weddings and bar mitzvahs at which she was asked to perform in her native Manchester (UK) as a young girl! It was Don Arden,father of Sharon Osbourne and the notorious 'Mr Big' of the music world,who discovered her,making her change her name from Bookbinder and sending her on a tour of Germany.It was make or break for the still raw Elkie,but as always her voice won through.She went on to become part of cult rock groups such as Dada and Vinegar Joe,before establishing herself as one of the UK's most successful female vocalists.[In the 1990s she was recognised in the Guinness Book of Records as the most charted female of the last twenty years.] Yet the road to stardom was never an easy one.But for the support of Elkie's great friend Humphrey Littleton,she says she might have been dead from drink.She has experienced hardships that would have daunted most,and dealt with them with the same spirit,grit and humour that make her singing so powerful.Along the way she has worked with many of the biggest names in the business and recorded some of the most iconic songs in rock history,including 'Lilac Rain', 'Sunshine After the Rain' and her signature tune,'Pearl's a Singer'. In 'Finding My Voice',Elkie tells her remarkable story in her own unique voice, laying bare the reality of stardom and sharing her committment to the great passion of her life - music. Elkie has had sixteen UK hit albums and continues to record,releasing her twentieth studio album 'Powerless',in 2010. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, SIGNED,1st edn.
'To Gill with love Elkie'

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