{"product_id":"books-a-cure-for-gravity-by-joe-jackson","title":"A Cure For Gravity","description":"Since the release of his first best-selling album  Look Sharp  in 1979, Joe Jackson has forged a singular career in music through his originality as a composer and his notoriously independent stance toward music-business fashion. He has also been a famously private person, whose lack of interest in his own celebrity has been interpreted by some as aloofness. That reputation is shattered by  A Cure for Gravity , Jackson's enormously funny and revealing memoir of growing up musical, from a culturally impoverished childhood in a rough English port town to the Royal Academy of Music, through London's Punk and New Wave scenes, up to the brink of pop stardom. Jackson describes his life as a teenage Beethoven fanatic his early piano gigs for audiences of glass-throwing skinheads and his days on the road with long-forgotten club bands. Far from a standard-issue celebrity autobiography,  A Cure for Gravity  is a smart, passionate book about music, the creative process, and coming of age as an artist.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53505757446417,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780306810015.jpg?v=1778101623","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-a-cure-for-gravity-by-joe-jackson","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}