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Follow on Google News | David J Releases Rock ’N’ Roll Memoir This OctoberDavid J’s up front and very personal account of his tumultuous times with the seminal Gothic/Art rock band titled "Who killed mister moonlight? Bauhaus, Black Magick and Benediction" in bookstores this October
By: GorgeousPR -Alan Moore, Author of Watchmen Bauhaus was…one of the reckless few that created such an important and unusual genre of music. Their odd, witchy songs snaked themselves all the way from whence they came into my temporal lobe and impacted on what I ended up becoming as an artist. -Marilyn Manson I’ve just read David J. Haskins’s memoirs. I had expected drugs and sex and rock music; I had not expected the kaleidoscopic parade of sheer insanity, the loads of blood and punch-ups, fantastic egos, dark arts, creeps and cons, curses, witches, gurus, psychological warfare, superstars and nameless angels, demons and doomed types, fire, arrests, legal battles, gods and doors to other worlds, astral projection, ASTRAL FUCKING PROJECTION....AND it’s actually quite a hilarious read, save all the creepy crawly bits. -Black Francis (Pixies) A rollicking, heady ride laced with sex, loaded with narcotics and exploding with violent spats and some of the most deliciously dark rock music ever created, Who Killed Mister Moonlight? Bauhaus, Black Magick and Benediction (http://davidjonline.com/ Soaring from the glowing embers of punk rock’s cataclysmic burn out, Bauhaus (Peter Murphy on vocals, Daniel Ash on guitar, Kevin Haskins on drums and the author on bass.) initiated post-punk’s primary manifestation. With an inimitable sound and great style, this gang of talented mutant misfits seared their mark on England’s musical scene during the late 1970s and early 1980s , only to “…fly too close to a screaming black sun and die on the Icarus wing,” writes Haskins. Regardless, the band’s pervasive spirit would live on long after its demise, influencing the work of musicians such as Marilyn Manson, Trent Reznor, Billy Corgan and many more. Featuring cameo appearances by a wide range of fascinating characters, including William S. Burroughs, Genesis P. Orridge and Rick Rubin, and a forward penned by poet and author Jeremy Reed, the autobiography opens with the haunted nativity that resulted in Bauhaus’s debut hit ‘Bela Lugosi’s Dead’, and offers an unmitigated recounting of the band’s rapid rise to fame and glory in the late 70s, their sudden dissolution in the 80s, and their subsequent—and often contentious— The book’s publication will be supported with live performances by Haskins in both the U.S. and Europe. Brimming with wit, wisdom and wonder, Who Killed Mister Moonlight? Bauhaus, Black Magick and Benediction is a one of a kind rock ’n’ roll memoir. About David J. Haskins David J. Haskins (AKA David J) was born in Northampton, England, in 1957, and was a founder member of Bauhaus, the highly influential band that spearheaded the post-punk alternative- End
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