Product Description

The first authorised, beautifully illustrated hardback on this hugely successful new Irish band. The Corrs are three sisters and a brother from Dundalk in Ireland. All in their twenties, their unique blend of traditional Irish music and pop has proved a winning formula, taking both their albums to the top of the charts. Forgiven, Not Forgotten went platinum in five countries including the UK, Australia, Ireland and France. Their second album, Talk on Corners, has been even more successful. Launched in October 1997 it has gone gold or platinum in twelve markets around the world and went to number one in the UK charts. Both albums have been in the top ten for most of 1999, while singles like What Can I Do and Dreams have also been huge hits.

Photographer Paul Gaster took the very first pictures of the band and was present at their first gigs when the tiny audience consisted only of friends and family. Since then he has toured Ireland and Australia with them, was present at the Albert Hall concert which helped break them in the UK and will be at their Landsdowne Road concert in July. His unique pictures chart the meteoric rise of this band and give an insight into their lives behind the scenes as well as in front of the crowds.

Fully authorised by the band, Corner to Corner includes exclusive interviews with the Corrs as well as their manager. Amongst other things they discuss key moments in their career, their musical influences, their closeness as a family and how they cope with the demands of superstardom. Beautifully produced, with over 150 photographs, Corner to Corner is sure to appeal to all the band's many fans.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #563418 in Books
• Published on: 1999-11-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 168 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Corrs are undoubtedly the most beautiful folk band in the world so it's according that The Corrs--The Authorised Behind-The Scenes Book is a mainly pictorial history of Ireland's prodigal son-and-daughters team. Seven years of shots taken by long-time, semi-official photographer Paul Gaster, it charts the Corrs' rise, from their first official photo shoot in a studio's decaying back lot just outside Dublin, to a headlining gig playing to more than 42,000 people in Dublin's Lansdown Road stadium. It's the photography that's the book's main selling point--a lush 160 page tome, it's perfect for the coffee table--but regretfully for the fans, there's little here that approaches biographic detail and Gaster's prose occasionally rambles off into Amateur Photographer self-importance: "My own new gadget was a state-of-the-art camera with low-light lenses that would give the pictures better definition when not using the flash", he states at one point, apropos of very little. What The Corrs ... does successfully document, though, is the bands' visual growth--from a slightly twee, fiddle-folk beginning to their huge, poptastic stadium-slaying peak. And it's always interesting, of course, to see when that butter-wouldn't-melt sheen slips; the shot of Andrea Corr staring into the crowd at Lansdown Stadium and screaming in elated terror, for example--or conversely, the shot of a Corrs sister weeping into her hands, fatigued by a punishing tour schedule. As the saying goes, a picture sometimes paints a thousand words. --Louis Pattison

About the Author
Paul Gaster is a photographer whose pictures have been widely published in the UK, Ireland and America. He lives in County Dublin, Ireland.

Customer Reviews

This book is absolutley a Corrs fans MUST!
I think this book is excellent! The way Gaster talks about how we first got to know the band, the way we get to see intimate pictures of each sister. From the very early black and white pictures of Caroline up to the thumb-sucking pictures from Andrea in recent years, This book gives an insight into the siblings rise to stardom at a breathtaking read!
A must for Any Corrs fan!

Worth a read if you're a Corrs fan.
Otherwise I wouldn't bother because there's nothing new here that we haven't read in the media. Unfortunately it's just one long press release with some familiar photos . Buy their album Forgiven Not Forgotten if you want real value for money

This book was brilliant
I really enjoyed this book. As a massive Corrs fan myself, this gave me a greater insight into the band as people and showed them from the beginning and how they've made a hit over the years. There are also some great photos of the band- in the public eye and away from the limelight. This book is well worth a read.