Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Book description
'Literally changed the course of my life' James Murphy
'The chapter on Larry Levan alone transformed me into wanting to be your favorite DJ' Questlove
'The original and still the best' Gilles Peterson
'We can't tell the story of dance music without speaking the names of Sharon White and Judy…
Why read it?
1 author picked Last Night a DJ Saved My Life as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It's a good book to own alongside the same authors' "how-to" guide listed above. I always recommend this one for my students when they want to understand a bit more about what it is actually like to DJ professionally and why people dedicate their lives to it.
The book is in the form of a series of interviews with DJs, many of whom are well known (or at least, were at the time it was written—it is quite old), but many of whom certainly weren't ever famous, and historically it covers a large timespan. Success in DJing means something very…
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