It's not your typical love story: Boy meets bassist, boy loses wife, boy's band breaks up. But Luna wasn't a typical band, and the affair between frontman Dean Wareham and the beguiling Britta Phillips (who joined the dream-pop combo in 2002) was far from formulaic. In the singer-guitarist's compelling new memoir, Black Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance (out next week), he recounts his
futile efforts to forestall the dangerous liaison he knew would wreck his marriage and devastate his then-eight-month-old son. Luna broke up in 2005 and Wareham got divorced soon after, but he and Phillips formed their own band, Dean & Britta, and got married last year while recording their latest album, Back Numbers. Best of all, all that angst made for some great lyrics.
JARED PAUL STERN
6:52 AM, March 04, 2008
Photo: Michael Lavine, courtesy of the Penguin Press
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