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If Frank Sidebottom is an unfamiliar name, I recommend the short audiobook Frank by Jon Ronson as an entertaining story. Jon played keyboards in his band and is
by paulgb 8y ago
If Frank Sidebottom is an unfamiliar name, I recommend the short audiobook Frank by Jon Ronson as an entertaining story. Jon played keyboards in his band and is an entertaining writer.
- ozzmotik 8y agooh wow thanks for sharing that! I had never heard of frank but i definitely have heard of jon ronson from his research and look into psychopathy. oh and the men who stare at goats, of course. anyway i must now add yet another line to my ledger of things i really should be looking into
- stevenwoo 8y agoThe movie Frank is a fictionalized version of the character (written by Ronson), and there was a documentary about the guy as well: http://www.beingfrankmovie.com/info.html http://www.beingfrankmovie.com/info.html I watched the movie and was shocked to learn the movie was based on a real life phenomena.
- Joeboy 8y agoI don't think the film has all that much to do with Frank Sidebottom, beyond the name and the head. It's more a take on more troubled outsider geniuses like Captain Beefheart and Daniel Johnston. As far as I can tell Chris Sievey was maybe quite eccentric and probably a bit frustrating, but Sidebottom was a piece of art he was doing and not an artifact of mental illness like the film's Frank.
- branchless 8y agoThe whole point of the film was that Frank was just talented, with no dark past. His protege assumed dark times were the only true source of talent. His protege was not talented.
- mcguire 8y agoI believe the documentary was the origin of this article.
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- gadders 8y agoLucky enough to see him at Reading Festival. Absolutely hilarious.