I love a good music book/biography, me. Doesn't even have to be
about anyone I'm a major fan of either, usually. Anyone recommend
anything that falls under this category for these unprecedented times
of sitting on yer arse, stuck in the hoose?
...I'm making lists of all the people I love,
and all the cunts that should fuck off...
Punk rock an oral history by John Rob. Fantastically put together with just about everyone of note in the first wave U.K. punk scene contributing one way or another.
I can't help getting old. I just refuse to grow up.
Boody wrote: ↑04 Jun 2020, 11:37
Punk rock an oral history by John Rob. Fantastically put together with just about everyone of note in the first wave U.K. punk scene contributing one way or another.
MiB81 wrote: ↑04 Jun 2020, 11:30
Doesn't even have to be about anyone I'm a major fan of either, usually.
Me too, and the same for documentaries (which is a good thing, given the continued delay of the Stranglers one). Most of the band biographies I've read have been quite poor, though, not a patch on the quality of "No Mercy". The John Lydon book "No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish" (or whichever order they appear in) was terrible - he really should have got a proper writer involved. I read one about Phil Lynott which was OK, but a bit confusing timeline-wise in some parts.
Boody wrote: ↑04 Jun 2020, 19:14
Julian Cope wrote a couple of pretty good autobiographies - hard to find these days but a good read.
Again agreed, Head On and Repossessed both great reads. I remember asking him years ago about
when he would do the next installment of his memoirs and he said that as it would deal with the
death of his father this would be much too painful for him.
...I'm making lists of all the people I love,
and all the cunts that should fuck off...
MiB81 wrote: ↑04 Jun 2020, 11:30
Doesn't even have to be about anyone I'm a major fan of either, usually.
Me too, and the same for documentaries (which is a good thing, given the continued delay of the Stranglers one). Most of the band biographies I've read have been quite poor, though, not a patch on the quality of "No Mercy". The John Lydon book "No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish" (or whichever order they appear in) was terrible - he really should have got a proper writer involved. I read one about Phil Lynott which was OK, but a bit confusing timeline-wise in some parts.