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Original Title:	How to Make Gravy
ISBN:	1926428226 (ISBN13: 9781926428222)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Prime Minister's
Literary Awards:	Nominee for Nonfiction (2011), Australian Independent Booksellers Indie Book Award Nominee for Non-Fiction (2011), Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) for Biography (2011)

How to Make Gravy

Paul Kelly

Hardcover | Pages: 576 pages

Rating: 4.3 | 593 Users | 95 Reviews

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Title	:	How to Make Gravy
Author	:	Paul Kelly
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 576 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2010 by Penguin Books Australia (first published September 22nd 2010)
Categories	:	Music. Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Cultural. Australia. Memoir

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This extraordinary book has its genesis in a series of concerts first staged in 2004. Over four nights Paul Kelly performed, in alphabetical order, one hundred of his songs from the previous three decades. In between songs he told stories about them, and from those little tales grew How to Make Gravy, a memoir like no other. Each of its hundred chapters, also in alphabetical order by song title, consists of lyrics followed by a story, the nature of the latter taking its cue from the former. Some pieces are confessional, some tell Kelly's personal and family history, some take you on a road tour with the band, some form an idiosyncratic history of popular music, some are like small essays, some stand as a kind of how-to of the songwriter's art – from the point of inspiration to writing, honing, collaborating, performing, recording and reworking.

Paul Kelly is a born storyteller. Give him two verses with a chorus or 550 pages, but he won't waste a word. How to Make Gravy is a long volume that's as tight as a three-piece band. There isn't a topic this man can't turn his pen to – contemporary music and the people who play it, football, cricket, literature, opera, social issues, love, loss, poetry, the land and the history of Australia … there are even quizzes. The writing is insightful, funny, honest, compassionate, intelligent, playful, erudite, warm, thought-provoking. Paul Kelly is a star with zero pretensions, an everyman who is also a renaissance man. He thinks and loves and travels and reads widely, and his musical memoir is destined to become a classic – it doesn't have a bum note on it.

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Well it didn't surprise me in the least that I'm giving 5 stars to a book penned by one of my favourite songwriters but damn, this was better than I'd hoped.I'm disappointed that it's finished. I started reading it back in October and even though it weighted about a kilo I've been carrying it around the country wherever I've gone. It was easy to pick up and read a few chapters then pick up something else knowing I could go back to it. I'm going to miss having it there.One thing this books makes

"Loss's sphere grows wider now, and included in it is all possibility. You reflect on all you've missed - how much of your life you've forgotten, how much has streamed by you, how paltry the haul in your little net. There are books that you haven't read, the ones you've read but don't recall, the history you don't know, the languages you haven't learnt, the music you've haven't heard, the songs you haven't written, the things you wish you'd asked your parents, the hugeness of the world, the tiny

A perfect book for dipping in and out of, Paul Kellys quasi-autobiography is really a collection of vignettes from his life built around an A-Z list of songs from his substantial repertoire. His lucid, laconic style reveals him as something of a renaissance man, combining a love of sport, history, language, Aboriginal culture and, of course, music. An autodidact, he is clearly open to life and new experience, endlessly curious about the world and finding meaning and truth in all corners.I

A book that sings and talks and plays.Back in 2013, I went to the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra and saw an exhibition entitled Paul Kelly and The Portraits. While I was wandering around, checking out the portraits, I realised that there was a lot I didnt know about Paul Kelly and his music. On the way out of the Gallery, I saw copies of How to Make Gravy. I borrowed a copy a few weeks later, then bought a copy of the book and a copy of the CD boxed set The A to Z Recordings.Ive only read

I listened to the Audio Book and it was fantastic.

This is a marvellous collection of vignettes, memories, lists and other thoughts from the inimitable Paul Kelly. What a treat. It took me forever to complete this, because I was also listening to the relevant songs as I went. this isn't a memoir, it's an A-Z of Paul's songs, taken from a four night engagement at the Melbourne Speilgletent. Oh how I wish I could have been there for that! This is the sort of book you dip in and out of, rather than sitting down and listening to for hours. Listening

Great read, great memoir. You can love Paul without loving all his music. As an Australian songwriter this is an amazing inspiration and resource for guidance which Ill be returning to it again and again.