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Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs

by Linda McCartney, Annie Leibovitz, Martin Harrison, Alison Castle


Detail

Format: 288 pages
Publisher: Taschen
Origin: (Edition 1) June 1, 2011
Language: Multilingual Text: English, German, French
ISBN-10: 3836527286
ISBN-13: 978-3836527286
Physical Trim: 15 x 10.7 x 1.4 inches


Description

In May 1968, with her portrait of Eric Clapton, Linda McCartney entered the record books as the first female photographer to have her work featured on the cover of Rolling Stone. during her tenure as the leading photographer of the late 1960d musical scene, she captured many of rock's most important musicians on film, including Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, The Doors, and the Grateful Dead. in 1967, Linda went to London to document the "Swinging Sixties," where she met Paul McCartney at the Bag O' Nails club and subsequently photographed The Beatles during a launch event for the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Paul and Linda fell in love, and were married on March 12, 1969. For the next three decades, until her untimely death, she devoted herself to her family, vegetarianism, animal rights, and photography. From her early rock 'n' roll portraits, through the final years of The Beatles, via touring with Wings to raising four children with Paul, Linda captured her whole world on film. Her shots range from spontaneous family pictures to studio sessions with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson, as well as artists Willem de Kooning and Gilbert and George. Always unassuming and fresh, her work displays a warmth and feeling for the precise moment that captures the essence of any subject. Whether photographing her children, celebrities, animals, or a fleeting moment of everyday life, she did so without pretension or artifice.

This retrospective volume - selected from her archive of over 200,000 images - is produced in close collaboration with Paul McCartney and their children. As such, it is a moving personal journal and a lasting testament to Linda's talent.


Kurzbeschreibung

Als Linda McCartneys Porträt von Eric Clapton im Mai 1968 auf der Titelseit des Rolling Stone erschien, war sie die erste Frau, der diese Ehre zuteil worde. Waahrend ihrer Zeit als fuhrende Fotografin der Musikszene der späten 1960er-Jahre bannte sie zahlreiche der bedeutendsten Musiker der Pop- und Rockszene auf Film, beispielsweise Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, The Doors und Grateful Dead. Linda ging 1967 nach London, um die „Swinging Sixties” zu dokumentieren; in dem Szene-Club „Bag O'Nails” begegnete sie Paul McCartney und fotografierte dann die Beatles bei einer Präsentation ihres Albums Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Paul und Linda verlievten sich ineinander und heirateten am 12. März 1969. In den nächsten drei Jahrzehnten bis zu ihrem frühen Tod widmete sich Linda ihrer Familie, dem Vegetarismus, dem Tierschutz und der Fotografie.

Linda verewigte ihre gesamte Welt auf Film - von den frühen Rock-Porträts über die letzten Jahre der Beatles bis zu den Tourneen mit den Wings und dem Großziehen von vier Kindern, gemeinsam mit Pul. Ihre Aufnahmen reichen von spontanenFamilienbildern bis zu Studiositzungen mit Steive Wonder und Michael Jackson sowie den Künstlern Wellem de Kooning und Gilbert and George. Ihre stets unpärtentiösen, lebendigen Arbeiten strahlen Wäme aus und zeugen vom Gespür für den entscheidenden Moment, um das Wesen eines beliebigen Sumets einzufangen. Jedem Motiv begegnete sie ganz ohne Anmaßung oder Künstlichkeit, seien es ihre eigenen Kinder, berühmte Persönlichkeiten, Tiere oder flüchtige Alltagsmomente.

Dieser Rückblick - ausgewählt aus ihrem mehr als 200,000 Fotos umfassenden Archive - entstand in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Paul McCartney und ihren Kindern. Das Resultat ist ein bewegendes persönliches Tagebuch und ein nachhaltiges Vermächtnis ihres Talents.


Présentation

Quand son portrait d'Eric Clapton fait la couverture du magazine Rolling Stone en mai 1968, Linda McCartney est la premi ère feme à avoir cet honneur. Considérée comme la plus grande photographe de la scàne musicale d la fin des années 1960, elle immortalise sur pellicule la plupart des stars de l'époque, notamment Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, The Who, The doors et les Grateful Dead. En 1967, Linda part à Londres pour photograpier les «Swinging Sixties», rencontre Paul McCartney au club Bag O'Nails et finit par prendre les Beatles en photo lors du lancement de l'album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Paul et Linda tombent amoureux et se marient le 12 mars 1969, Pedant les trois décennies suivantes et jusqu'à sa mort, elle se consacrera à sa famille, au végétarisme, à la protection des animaux et à la photographie. De ses premiers portraits rock'n'roll, jusqu'aux dernières années des Beatles, en passant par les tournées avec les Wings et l'éducation de quatre enfants avec Paul, Linda a immortalisé tout son petit monde sur la pellicule. Ses clichés vont des instantanés de la vie de famille aux images de session d'enregistrement avec Stevie Wonder et Michael Jackson, ou des portraits d'artistes comme Willem de Kooning ou Gilbert et George. Toujours modeste et sponanée, son œvre témoigne d'une chaleur et d'un sens de l'instant décisif capables de saisir l'essence de tout sujet. Qu'elle ait photographié ses enfants, des célébrités, des animaux ou un instant fugace de la quotidienne, elle l'a toujours fait sans prétention et sans artifice.

Cette grande rétrospective sur Linda - avec une sélection de ses archives de plus de 200,000 images - a été réalisé e en étroite collaboration avec Paul McCartney et leurs enfants. A ce Titre, cet ouvrage peut être considéré comme un journal intime émouvant et un grand hommage au talent de Linda.


Authors

The photographer: Linda McCartney (née Eastman) was born in New York in 1941. Outside of her photography, which has been exhibited in over 50 galleries worldwide, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, and the International Center of Photography, New York, Linda McCartney is known for her passionate animal rights activism and her staunch vegetarianism. She wrote cookbooks and founder her own brand of frozen vegetarian meals, all the while raising a family, continuing to take photographs, and participating as a Wings band member alongside Paul McCartney. She died of breast cancer in 1998 at the age of 56.
The editor: Alison Castle received degrees in philosophy (BA, Columbia University) and photography and film (MA, New York University). She is the editor of titles on photography, film, and design, including Some Like it Hot and The Stanley Kubrick Archives.
The contributing authors: Annie Leibovitz has been a working photographer for 40 years. She was the chief photographer for Rolling Stone and then the first contributing photographer for the revived Vanity Fair in addition to her editorial advertising campaigns. She has been designated a Living Legend by the Library of congress, Washington, D.C.
Martin Harrison is a historian of art and photography and an exhibition curator. He worked with Linda McCartney on Roadworks (1996). Light from Within (2001), and her exhibitions at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford and the ICP in New York. He has published widely on photography and, most recently, on the paintings of Francis Bacon.


Die Autoren

Die Fotografin: Linda McCartney (geb. Eastman) wurde 1941 in New York geboren. Ihre Fotos wruden in mehr als 50 Museen und Galerien ausgestellt, u.a. im Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in der National Portrait Gallery, London, in der Bonni Berubi Gallery, New York, und im International Center of Photography, New York. Darüber hinaus war Linda McCartney Für ihren leidenschaftlichen ihren leideschaftlichen Einsatz für Tierrecte und ihren standhaften Vegetarismus bekannt. Sie hat Kochbücher geschrieben und ihre eigene Marke vegetarischer Tiefkühlkost geschaffen, während sie daneben ihre Familie versorgte, weiterhin fotografierte und neben Paul McCartney in der Band Wings mitwirkte. Sie starb 1998 im Alter von 56 Jahren an Brustkrebs.
Eie Herausgeberin: Alison Castle erwarb ihren B.A. in Philosphie an der Columbia University und ihren M.A. in fotografie und Film an der New York University. Sie ist Herausgeberin von Büchern zu Fotografie, Film und Design darunter Some Like it Hot und The Stanley Kubirick Archives.
Die Autoren: Annie Leibovitz ist seit 40 Jahren als fotografin aktiv. Sie war Chef-Fotografin für Rolling Stone und lieferte die ersten fotografischen Beiträge für die wiederbelebte Vanity Fair. Neben ihrer redaktionellen Tätigkeit bei Vanity Fair und später auch Vogue schuf sie mehrere preisgekrönte Anzeigenkampagnen. Leibovitz wurde von der Library of congress, Washington, als Living Legend ausgezeichnet.
Martin Harrison ist Kunst- und Fotografiehistoriker sowie Austellungskurator. Mit Linda McCartney arbeitete er bei der Vorbereitung von Roadworks (1996), Light from Within (2001) und bei ihren Ausstellungen am National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford und am ICP New York zusammen. Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche Bücher zum Thema Fotografie, zuletzt auch eines über die Malerei Francis Bacons.


Les auteurs

La photographe : Linda McCartney (née Eastman) est née à New York en 1941. Outre ses photos exposées dans plus de 50 musées et galeries à travers le monde (Victoria and Albert Museum, Londres, National Portrait Gallery, Londres, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, Internationa Center of Photography, New York), Linda McCartney était réputée pour son activisme en faveur des droits des animaux et pour son végétarisme. Elle a écrit des livres de cuisine et cré&ecute; sa propre marque de plats végétariens surgeleés tout en élevant ses enfants. Elle a continué à prendre des photos et a été membre du groupe The Wings aux côté de Paul McCArtney. Linda est décédée d'un cancer du sein en 1998 à l'âge de 56 ans.
L'éditrice : Alison Castle est licenciée en philosophie (Université de Columbia, New York) et détient un master en photographie et cinéma (NYU/ICP). Elle a du design, notamment Some Like it Hot et The Stanley Kubrick Archives.
Les auteurs : Annie Seibovitz travaille depuis 40 ands comme photographe. Elle a été photographe en chef pour Rolling Stone, puis photographe attitrée pour un Vanity Fair rnaissant. En plus de ses publication dans Vanity Fair, et, plus tard, Vogue, elle a conçu plusieurs campagnes publicitaires récompenseées par des prix. Elle a été nomme ée Légende Vivante par la Library of Congress, Washingtion.
Martin Harrison est historien d'art et de la photographie et commissaire d'exposition. Il a travaillé avec Linda McCartney sur Roadworks (1996), Light from Within (2001), ainsi que sur ses expositions au National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, et à l'ICP, New York. Il a pubié de nombreux ouvrages sur la photographie, et, plus récemment, sur les tableaux de Francis Bacon.


PRAIRIE-STYLE GARDENS

by LYNN M. STEINER


PRAIRIE STYLE GARDENS


Description

With its unique blend of grasses and sturdy perennials, the North American prairie is one of the world's richest and most beautiful landscapes. It's also one of the most endangered - only a tiny fraction remains of the millions of pristine acres that once stretched from horizon to horizon. Fortunately, you can re-create some of this diversity at home and enjoy these fascinating plant communities up close. You don't need to have endless acres at your disposal - you can have an authentic prairie garden on a city or suburban lot. And you don't even have to live on the Great Plains: prairie plants are practical choices for any landscape situation that has good drainage and full sun, whether in New England or the desert Southwest. Moreover, with their modest water needs, prairie plants make a great substitute for water-hungry lawns. And at a time when wild-life habitats are under increasing pressure from development, their flowers and foliage provide food and shelter for birds and beneficial insects.

Eminently practical, Prairie-Style Gardens shows you how to use prairie plants in a wide variety of situations, from including a few prairie plants in an existing landscape to creating a full-fledged habitat garden. Especially useful is the author's advice on how to make prairie plants work in a typical urban or suburban setting, where it isn't easy to deviate from the local norm. A comprehensive plant profiles setion helps you choose which plants will look best and thrive in your particular situation. Each plant entry includes detailed information on size, native habitats, site requirements, hardiness, appropriate landscape uses, care, companion plants, and available cultivars.

Anyone can have a prairie - this book tells you how to do it.


Author

LYNN M. STEINER has been a professional garden writer since 1987, focusing her writing since 2003 on native plants and how to bring them into home landscapes. She is the author of several articles and three books about landscaping with native plants in the Midwest, and is a regular contributor to Northern Gardener magazine. As a popular speaker, she travels extensively in the Midwest, visiting natural areas, native plant landscapes, and botanical gardens.


Detail

Format: 304 pages;
Publisher: Timber Press;
Origin: (Edition 1) October 13, 2010;
Language: (original) English;
ISBN-10: 1604690038
ISBN-13: 978-1604690033
Trim: 9.25 x 7.5 x 1 inches

TAVERN LEAGUE: Portraits of Wisconsin Bars

by CARL COREY


TAVERN LEAGUE

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Author

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Detail

Format: 0101 pages;
Publisher: 0101 0101 0101;
Origin: 0101 01, 0101;
Language: (original) English;
ISBN-10: 0101010101
ISBN-13: 0101010101010
Trim: 00 x 00 x 00 inches


The Influencing Machine

by Brooke Gladstone


THE INFLUENCING MACHINE


Description

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Author

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Format: 0101 pages;
Publisher: 0101 0101 0101;
Origin: 0101 01, 0101;
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ISBN-10: 0101010101
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THEY MARCHED INTO SUNLIGHT: WAR AND PEACE VIETNAM AND AMERICA OCTOBER 1967

by David Maraniss


THEY MARCHED INTO SUNLIGHT: WAR AND PEACE VIETNAM AND AMERICA OCTOBER 1967


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Author

David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post. He is the author of five critically acclaimed and bestselling books, 'When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi,' 'First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton, They Marched Into Sunlight - War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967,' 'Clemente - The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero,' and 'Rome 1960: The Summer Olympics That Stirred the World.' He is also the author of 'The Clinton Enigma' and coauthor of 'The Prince of Tennessee: Al Gore Meets His Fate' and 'Tell Newt to Shut Up!'

Maraniss was also part of The Washington Post team that won a 2008 Pulitzer for the newspaper's coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting. He has won several other notable awards for achievements in journalism, including the George Polk Award, the Dirksen Prize for Congressional Reporting, the ASNE Laventhol Prize for Deadline Writing, the Hancock Prize for Financial Writing, the Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Frankfort Book Prize, the Eagleton Book Prize, the Ambassador Book Prize, and Latino Book Prize.

Maraniss is a fellow of the Society of American Historians and a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist: winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and finalist two other times for his journalism and again for 'They Marched Into Sunlight.' He and his wife, Linda, live in Washington, DC, and Madison, Wisconsin. His most recent book is 'Into the Story: A Writer's Journey Through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss,' (publication date, January 2010). Visit the author at davidmaraniss.com nybooks.com

Detail

Format: 572 pages;
Publisher: Simon & Schuster;
Origin: (September 28, 2004);
Language: (original) English;
ISBN-10: 0743261046
ISBN-13: 978-0743261043

The State Capitol of Wisconsin

The State Capitol House in Madison Wisconsin

The State Capitol of Wisconsin is one of the greatest examples of Beaux Arts style architecture in the United States. It was built between 1906 and 1917, the third capitol building on the site. (The second building burned in 1904 - in one of the more ill-timed cost-cutting measures in American political history, the legislature had voted to cancel the fire insurance on the building five weeks earlier.)

John Nolan Drive

The architect was George B. Post (1837-1913), a student of Richard Morris Hunt. He also designed many early New York City skyscrapers, some the tallest in the world at the time, and the New York Stock Exchange Building on Broad Street.

Cruciform in shape, with four equal wings, the Wisconsin State Capitol has one of the highest domes in the country (only a few feet shorter than the U.S. Capitol) and the only one made of granite (the dome of the Capitol in Washington is cast iron).

While grand on the outside, the inside is magnificent, abounding with Beaux Arts exuberance and luxury that never crosses the line into vulgarity.

You can get some idea of this wonderful building by viewing pictures here wisconsin.gov and here dennis.com and here. flickr.com

The state legislature's online bluebook (in Adobe Acrobat format) also includes a very detailed, illustrated history of the capitol building that is split into parts one www.legis.state.wi.us and two. www.legis.state.wi.us

For even greater detail, a copy of the six volume Wisconsin State Capitol's Historic Structure Report digicoll.library.wisc.edu is available online from the State of Wisconsin Collection.

A gallery of historic capitol pictures is available at the Wisconsin Electronic Reader site. www.library.wisc.edu

Capitol Square

Other historic pictures of Madison and its capitol are available at the Historic Madison website. historicmadison.org


When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi

by David Maraniss


When Pride Still Mattered : A Life Of Vince Lombardi


Description

More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at Fordham, West Point, and the New York Giants before his big break came at age forty-six with the chance to coach a struggling team in snowbound Wisconsin. His leadership of the Green Bay Packers to five world championships in nine seasons is the most storied period in NFL history.

Using the same meticulous reporting and sweeping narrative style employed in 'First in His Class', his classic biography of Bill Clinton, David Maraniss separates myth from reality and wondrously recaptures Lombardi's life and times. 'When Pride Still Mattered' is the quintessential story of the American family: how a son of first generation immigrants, rose to the top and came to inspire the entire country.

Vince Lombardi became a living legend, a symbol to many of leadership, discipline, perseverance, and teamwork, and to others of an obsession with winning. In 'When Pride Still Mattered,' Pulitzer Prize-winning author Maraniss captures the myth and the man, football, God, and country in a thrilling biography destined to become an American classic. A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist illuminates the life and legend of the great pro football coach Vince Lombardi, in a textured and compelling biography of an American original.

Author

David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post. He is the author of five critically acclaimed and bestselling books, 'When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi,' 'First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton, They Marched Into Sunlight - War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967,' 'Clemente - The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero,' and 'Rome 1960: The Summer Olympics That Stirred the World.' He is also the author of 'The Clinton Enigma' and coauthor of 'The Prince of Tennessee: Al Gore Meets His Fate' and 'Tell Newt to Shut Up!'

Maraniss was also part of The Washington Post team that won a 2008 Pulitzer for the newspaper's coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting. He has won several other notable awards for achievements in journalism, including the George Polk Award, the Dirksen Prize for Congressional Reporting, the ASNE Laventhol Prize for Deadline Writing, the Hancock Prize for Financial Writing, the Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Frankfort Book Prize, the Eagleton Book Prize, the Ambassador Book Prize, and Latino Book Prize.

Maraniss is a fellow of the Society of American Historians and a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist: winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting and finalist two other times for his journalism and again for 'They Marched Into Sunlight.' He and his wife, Linda, live in Washington, DC, and Madison, Wisconsin. His most recent book is 'Into the Story: A Writer's Journey Through Life, Politics, Sports and Loss,' (publication date, January 2010). Visit the author at davidmaraniss.com nybooks.com

Detail

Format: 544 pages;
Publisher: Simon & Schuster;
Origin: (September 3, 2000);
Language: (original) English;
ISBN-10: 0684870185
ISBN-13: 978-0684870182


Donald Cammell, Dennis Hopper, Alejandro Jodorowsky & Kenneth Anger


"Like all artists I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation"
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Donald Cammell, Dennis Hopper, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Kenneth Anger in London, 1971.


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Detail

Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Nation Books
Origin: edition 1 (January 5, 2010)
Language: (original): English
ISBN-10: 1568586051
ISBN-13: 978-1568586052


ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST


one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest...

Detail

Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher (this edition): Penguin Classics
Origin (this editon): November 27, 2007
Language (original): English
ISBN-10: 0143105027
ISBN-13: 978-0143105022


'I thought I was indestructible' : The Trials of Dolores O'Riordan

By Catherine O'Brien
source : Mail Online
from 16:17 23 February 2008

Dolores O'Riordan enjoyed success with the Cranberries but it came at a high price.
After years out of the limelight, she is back - but this time with no entourage and no fuss...

(1993)

For anyone looking to restore their faith in the power of serendipity, the story of Dolores O'Riordan is a good place to start.

When she was 18, a girl at school told her about three boys in a band looking for a singer.

She met them and, within a week, they had written their first song together, called 'Linger.'

The Cranberries
Barely a year later, it reached the U.S. top ten.

The Cranberries went on to have number-one singles in 26 countries and sell more than 40 million albums worldwide.

Dolores, a wisp of a woman with a hypnotic, powerhouse voice, was catapulted from the backwaters of Limerick to the global stage, becoming one of Ireland's richest women.

But then, almost as suddenly as she had appeared, she vanished.

Seven years of relentless touring and recording had led to a catastrophic breakdown.

She had therapy, recovered, had three children and focused on "just being anonymous".

In late 2005, just as Dolores was thinking of getting back to work, she took a call from the American actor Adam Sandler, who was directing and starring in a film called Click.

"'Linger' was one of his favourite songs, and he had this wedding scene in which he wanted me to perform in a cameo," she explains. Her daughter Dakota was six months old at the time "and I was still nursing her, but I thought, 'I can't refuse'."

So she weaned Dakota, flew to Los Angeles and, from the moment she stepped on to the film set, "I enjoyed myself so much. It was like being called back".

Having fled the spotlight for so long it was a big step for Dolores to re-enter the fray with her debut solo album and accompanying world tour last year.

The difference this time, she says, is that she is doing it on her own terms.

"In a band, you are always rushing, working to schedules, feeling you are part of a package.

"Now I don't have to worry about anyone else - I can just be myself."

We meet in a plush Park Lane hotel in London. A decade ago, as part of the Cranberries, Dolores would probably have arrived with an entourage and conducted interviews in a lavish suite. Today, she is alone and happy to sit in a quiet corner of the lounge.

Up close you can see the subtle signs of her star status - lusciously layered hair, gleaming dentistry and a French manicure.


Dolores O'Riordan is back after years
out of the lime light. The Cranberries'
very first single, 'Linger,' charted the
U.S. top ten and became an immediate
pop standard.

But at 36, she still has about her that fragile yet feisty air of the goth teenager who used to paint her nails black and pale her face with baby powder.

Her only jewellery is her wedding band.

"I don't like bling," she says.

"Don (her husband) bought me lots of jewellery, but it was just something else to stress about.

"When you have four bracelets, you constantly ask yourself, 'Which one shall I wear?' The easiest thing is not to wear any." Her jeans and pumps are similarly understated.

"I was a fashion victim for a while, and I do love tailored clothes.

"But I don't feel I have to prove myself by wearing expensive stuff. What is important is what's in your heart."

To understand the ambitious, uber-cool yet at times crushingly insecure Dolores, you have to appreciate her earliest years, growing up in rural Ballybricken. Hers was a classic Irish Catholic childhood - convent education, Mass every Sunday and saint's day.

There was hardship - her father had suffered brain damage in a car crash two years before Dolores was born and never worked, so her mother toiled to pay the bills, childminding and doing housework by day, followed by shifts at a local factory at night.

As the youngest of seven - she has five brothers and one sister - Dolores had an attention-seeking, rebellious streak, but mostly she did what she was told.

She played the church organ, sang Gregorian chants and wasn't allowed to go to discos or wear make-up. "My mother had this notion of me becoming a nun," she recalls.

"But I was thinking rock star, and when I was 18, something inside me flipped. One day I ran away, and it broke my mother's heart."

The Cranberries
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Within weeks of leaving, she had hitched up with the Cranberries and was touring Ireland in an old bread van, before signing a jaw-dropping six-album deal, and travelling to America.

She shudders to think of how hard the wrench must have been for her mother.

"We made our peace a couple of weeks after I left, but I never moved back.

"You take your parents so much for granted, then later you're sorry for having been such a pain.

"I thought I knew it all.

"It was only when I got to my 30s that I realised I knew a lot less than I thought I did in my 20s."

They were heady days, and Dolores loved the songwriting and performing, but she admits to having been naive about what it is to be a celebrity.

"Fame is weird," she says. "You're just trying to be normal, but then you find yourself in the darkness."

The Cranberries toured with Suede and Duran Duran, before headlining around the world.

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"We were on a massive high, but at the time you don't feel it because you're waking up at seven and a make-up artist is prodding you because you've got a magazine shoot at nine, and you're doing tour, album, tour, album, and it's like that every day."

She's not whingeing, just telling it as it was. And she blames no one but herself.

"I was a workaholic, like my mother. I could never say no."

She wasn't good with men - a factor she puts down to her relationship with her father.

"We have the best relationship now, but he had been emotionally absent when I was growing up.

"The car accident made him that way, but at the time I couldn't see that."

There were a couple of messy liaisons before, at 21, she met Don. He was Duran Duran's tour manager, a Canadian ten years her senior, and he showered her with love.

"To this day, if we're out to dinner, he'll take my coat, give me my chair, check out the menu for what I like. He's a real caregiver, so protective of me."

Dolores and Don married in 1994 in Tipperary - she famously wore a see-through dress - and spent their honeymoon camping in Galway.

"We only had five days before my next gig and I couldn't face staying in a hotel where everyone would recognise us, so we woke up the day after our wedding in a tent, hungover and starving," she grins.

"We had a gas stove, but no food, so I walked down to the village shop for a tin of beans and there I was, on all the front pages. I put my head down, grabbed the beans, and ran."

A year later she started having anxiety attacks - her limbs would seize up when she was about to go on stage or when she was with strangers.

She couldn't eat or sleep, and her weight plummeted to six stone.

Interviewers described her as moody and erratic, and speculated that she had anorexia.

In fact, she was just emotionally spent.

"When you have that sort of fame, you are bigger than your own self.

"I thought I was indestructible.

"It was only later, when I saw pictures of myself, that I realised how terrible I looked."

Beechy Colclough, psychotherapist to the stars (he has also counselled Elton John, Michael Jackson and Robbie Williams), proved to be her salvation.

"He made me feel that it wasn't me who was nuts, just the world around me.

"He said, 'It's your life. Stop being famous and get away.' So I did."

To the pleasant surprise of fans around the world, the Cranberries briefly reunited for a short show at Trinity University, Dublin, in January of 2009
Taylor, now ten, was born a year after her breakdown.

"Having him gave me a whole new outlook on life."

He was followed by Molly, now seven, and Dakota, two.

The Cranberries made a couple more albums but other band members were starting families too, "and one of them had a seriously ill child and life took over".

Dolores and Don moved to Canada, to a log cabin home in Ontario.

"The Canadians are very grounded. I could take Taylor to school and sit in his class with a bunch of six-year-olds and just be Mum.

"I wasn't singing, wasn't performing, I had no website. And sometimes Don and I would go online and see all this banter on the unofficial sites, people asking 'Where is she?' But it was important to disconnect myself."

Dolores O'Riordan | Are You Listening?
Are You Listening? on Sanctuary label

The one thing she never stopped, however, was writing songs.

Her album Are You Listening? is a collection of 12 tracks, plucked from more than 30, that reflect the highs and lows of her past decade. It is dedicated to Don's stepmother Denise, who died of cancer in 2004. She had been like a second mother to Dolores.

There are also ballads she has dedicated to her children, to Don and to her parents, and a blisteringly angry track entitled 'Loser'. She's not identifying her 'loser', so we can only speculate whether the lyrics 'A two-watt light bulb is brighter than you/I'm sick and tired of people like you' are directed at the former nanny who tried, and failed, to sue her and Don over negligence and false imprisonment claims in 2004.

Dolores seems a woman who has achieved a hard-won equilibrium.

Dolores O'Riordan | No Baggage
New album, No Baggage,
release date: 25.09

She and Don still have their log cabin, but their main home is now in Howth, Dublin, where Ronan Keating and other entertainment and media types are near neighbours. "This is practical for the children. We're part of the community.

"Life has changed so much for me, but I'm a normal mother, and one of the things I'm most proud of is that I'm giving my children their own normality."

She recalls an ex-boyfriend saying to her once that if she had children, she would stop being an artist.

"But you know, living my life through their lives is my inspiration. Your career goes up and down, but your family is for ever.

"Becoming famous skewed my perspective for a while, but, underneath it all, I always knew that."

DOLORES ORIORDAN | NO BAGGAGE
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