Name: Hiparama Of The Classics
Brand: Lord Buckley

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

9780872866713

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Format Books GB

Paperback

Format detail

Limited edition

Release date

2015-08-11

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Supplier GB

Perseus

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Artist

Lord Buckley

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Music

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City Lights

Lord Buckley, "His Royal Hipness," AKA the "Charlie Parker of Talk," was an American performer, recording artist, and hip poet/comic who, in the 1940s and 50s created a character that was, according to the New York Times, "An unlikely persona . . . part English royalty, part Dizzy Gillespie." Buckley's unique stage persona anticipated aspects of the Beat Generation's sensibility, and influenced figures as various as Ken Kesey, George Harrison, Tom Waits, Lenny Bruce, and Robin Williams. Bob Dylan, in his book Chronicles, wrote: "Buckley was the hipster bebop preacher who defied all labels."Buckley was immensely popular, appearing multiple times on television's Tonight Show Starring Steve Allen and The Ed Sullivan Show, among others. Presenting himself as a jazz philosopher, hemp-headed hipster, and "Guru of the Gone World," his speech flowed with jazz rhythms and surreal elaboration. Buckley enchanted audiences with his endlessly inventive monologues, and Hiparama of the Classics presents seven of his best-known routines, satirizing Shakespeare ("Willie the Shake"), the Marquis de Sade ("The Mark"), Mahatma Ghandi ("The Hip Ghan"), Jesus ("The Nazz"), Cabeza de Vaca ("The Gasser"), and others.First published in 1960, this new expanded edition contains, in addition to Buckley's hip-semantic raps, a new foreword by Al Young and photographs by legendary music photographers Jim Marshall, Jerry Stoll, and others.

Hiparama Of The Classics

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