A Thousand Threads
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Neneh Cherry
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Neneh Cherry
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Brought to you by Penguin.
**Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2025**
A deeply personal and powerful memoir from beloved music icon Neneh Cherry.
*A GUARDIAN AUDIOBOOK OF THE WEEK*
*A GUARDIAN MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024*
*A BBC CULTURE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024*
Top of the Pops, December 1988. The world sat up as a young woman made her debut: gold bra, gold bomber jacket, and proudly, gloriously, seven months pregnant. This was no ordinary artist. This was Neneh Cherry.
But navigating fame and family wasn't always simple. In this beautiful and deeply personal memoir, Cherry remembers the collaborations, the highs and lows, the friendships and loves, and the addictions and traumas that have shaped her as a woman and an artist. At the heart of it, always, is family: the extraordinary three generations of artists and musicians that are her inheritance and her legacy.
Musician. Songwriter. Collaborator. Activist. Mother. Daughter. Lover. Friend. Icon. This is her story.
'Neneh is cool, Neneh is wise, Neneh is a legend. Her memoir is a treasure. I loved it.' ZADIE SMITH
'Cherry delivers her story with clarity and calm, even when revisiting the darker chapters in her life' The Guardian
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- Thea
- 04-11-2024
A big and interesting life
It was wonderful to learn about Neneh’s incredible life so far. Her fascinating heritage, her family and the big back story of her creative journey. I loved learning more about her Mum Moki and her beautiful art. I came in to this knowing a little about her music and a love of the early years with the Slits et al. I left feeling happy about learning so much more. What a beautiful and fascinating woman.
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- jonathan alley
- 03-02-2025
A life lived authentically through music: inspired
It was always someone else's story. Punk acts I was too young too see, and scenes too physically removed – continents away – to ever be involved in, Somehow, despite Neneh Cherry living in several different countries , a few years before I was born, in a community setting far different from my own, this felt so familiar. The coalescence of hip hop, dance. punk and reggae culture, the sudden seismic cultural shifts at the end of the 80s/dawn of the '90s, the line-in-the-sand records she loved
that changed everything for her, all resonated 100%. But much more importantly, Cherry's family life – born to Sierra Leonian /Swedish parentage, raised in Sweden, LA, New York and London, with jazz and visual art luminaries all around her, crystallises how she became the inspirational musical polymath we know her to be. Cherry's upbringing and background exemplifies a sense of family and community suffused in the arts that is now dying, Cherry isn't just an important musician, she's a cultural figure who passes on the influence of her mother Moki and stepfather Don every day, simply through living her life. You'll learn plenty about great music listening to this, but you'll learn the most about living life authentically. It's an absolute must.
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