The pianist and composer Ben Dawson has written a song about all those xxest of the xx artist biographies. You know the ones.
Ben says: "Being a musician for a living means you have to write, and then keep re-writing your professional biography to put in concert programmes, on websites, for publicity etc. It's unbearably tedious and painful having to stretch the truth about oneself in the third person without sounding like a d*ckhead. That doesn't, however, stop numerous musicians from calling themselves 'the greatest/most admired x of his/her/their generation'. They can't all be the greatest living whatever, can they? Someone, somewhere is lying...
Every lyric (almost) is from a real biography I have seen in print over the past year or so."
Here's Rachel Weston singing it, with Ben at the piano. Enjoy.
And on that merry note I am off to do some intensive writing for a week or two. Back soon...
