A Limited Edition of One

by Steven Wilson, Mick Wall (With)

Overview

The more I thought about it, the more I realised my career has been unusual. How did I manage to do everything wrong but still end up on the front cover of magazines, headlining world tours and achieving Top 5 albums? How did I attract such obsessive and fanatical fans, many of whom take everything I do or say very personally, which is simultaneously flattering but can also be tremendously frustrating? Even this I somehow cultivated without somehow meaning to. My accidental career.

Limited Edition of One is unlike any other music book you will ever have read.

Part the long-awaited memoir of Steven Wilson: whose celebrated band Porcupine Tree began as teenage fiction before unintentionally evolving into a reality that encompassed Grammy-nominated records and sold-out shows around the world, before he set out for an even more successful solo career.

Part the story of a twenty-first century artist who achieved chart-topping mainstream success without ever becoming part of the mainstream. From Abba to Stockhausen, via a collection of conversations and thought pieces on the art of listening, the rules of collaboration, lists of lists, personal stories, professional adventurism (including food, film, TV, modern art), old school rock stardom, how to negotiate an obsessive fanbase and survive on social media, and dream-fever storytelling.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780349135090
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	10/11/2022
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	976,926
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Steven Wilson is 'the most successful British artist you've never heard of' (Daily Telegraph), the 'king of prog' (Guardian) and a 'maverick meta-pop' star (Uncut). A multiple Grammy-nominated artist, he found fame with Porcupine Tree before going on to an even more successful solo career. An award-winning collaborator on over 50 albums, he is also in demand as a remixer of classic albums.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Somewhere But Not Here #1 1

Chapter 2 Destination … 12

Chapter 3 0 16

Chapter 4 Lists #1 27

Chapter 5 10 36

Chapter 6 The Laughing Gnome 50

Chapter 7 Lists #2 76

Chapter 8 20 89

Chapter 9 Somewhere But Not Here #2 97

Chapter 10 30 116

Chapter 11 Normal Lives 124

Chapter 12 Lists #3 134

Chapter 13 Designing Sound 145

Chapter 14 40 160

Chapter 15 Collaborators 176

Chapter 16 Breaking the Fourth Wall 200

Chapter 17 Lists #4 227

Chapter 18 Somewhere But Not Here #3 245

Chapter 19 Numbers 259

Chapter 20 Radio Urifriendly 279

Chapter 21 The Impossible Tightrope 293

Chapter 22 50 315

Chapter 23 Nothing To See Here 324

Chapter 24 60 337

Chapter 25 The Harmony Codex - A Story 339

Chapter 26 … Arrival 360

Acknowledgements 363

Editorial Reviews

Not only is Limited Edition of One a consistently fascinating overview of [Steven's] life and career to date, but it's also tackled in the same way as he approaches his music: keen to avoid the predictable or generic without ego-tripping; always thoughtful without ever being dull; and ultimately keeping hold of the fact that he does what he does for the enjoyment and self-expression as much as proving his genius to the world . . . as unique as its title suggests . . .—Prog

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