A new book of lyrics by Kazuo Ishiguro joins collections by Kate Bush and Jarvis Cocker. But can songwriting ever work on the page? Long before he wrote Booker-winning novels and Oscar-nominated screenplays, the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro wrote bad songs. In his own words, these unheard lyrics were "mostly ghastly" but they enabled him to find his voice. He worked through the gauche and thepretentious before alighting on the simpler first-person style that would define his fiction: "understat...
A new book of lyrics by Kazuo Ishiguro joins collections by Kate Bush and Jarvis Cocker. But can songwriting ever work on the page? Long before he wrote Booker-winning novels and Oscar-nominated screenplays, the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro wrote bad songs. In his own words, these unheard lyrics were "mostly ghastly" but they enabled him to find his voice. He worked through the gauche and thepretentious before alighting on the simpler first-person style that would define his fiction: "understat...
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