Music Books

[El Aguila]

He’s in upstate New York. There’s a good biography about those days, 70s Palace and Jamming fanzine, “Boy About Town”. You might be in it!

[El Aguila]

Boy About Town: A Memoir by Tony Fletcher (2013-09-23) To view the link you have to Register or Login

[west country boy]

Originally Posted by El Aguila

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[west country boy]

Originally Posted by Tomo

How Not To Run a Night, Peter Hook. About the Hacienda club in Manchester.

Yeah, that's a terrific book. I lent my copy to a chum of Pidster's and unsurprisingly I've never had it back.

I got halfway through Hook's Substance but gave up for some reason, so I'll have to give it another go.

[Tomo]

Originally Posted by El Aguila

I believe my company makes a fleeting appearance in that book, are Vampire Weekend in it?
We also feature more extensively in Dean Wareham's Black Postcards, which is well worth a read, Dean is a genuinely talented writer.

I forget who it is your company is?

Yeah they are... the book is all about the excess, of sex and drugs of New York, and then it get's to Vampire Week and it's just about how focused they were on being successful!

[Tomo]

Touching from a distance by Ian Curtis' wife is another that I loved, and what the film Control was based on.

[Tomo]

Originally Posted by west country boy

Yeah, that's a terrific book. I lent my copy to a chum of Pidster's and unsurprisingly I've never had it back.

I got halfway through Hook's Substance but gave up for some reason, so I'll have to give it another go.

I think I might have done similar. Couldn't get into it at all.

[west country boy]

It is very, very long.

[Maidstoned Eagle]

The 2 part biography of Sinatra is excellent
Bruce Springsteens recent memoirs are great too.

Both perfect books to read whilst turning pink and pretending you are hiding out on the Costas after being one of the 3,000 people involved in the Brinks Mat robbery.

[Jim Cannon]

Originally Posted by Stellavista

Julian Cope's autobiographical stuff is hilarious.

Head On was brilliant about his time with Teardrop Explodes. Just love his stories about the US tour and Gary Dwyer's antics. Hilarious

[The Norwoodsman]

I enjoyed Ben Folds' autobiography A Dream About Lightning Bugs.

It definitely didn't take itself too seriously and he was quite refreshingly honest about the times he has been a dick, especially to the women in his life.

[weltklasse]

Barefoot in Babylon was interesting

[Stellavista]

Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink - Elvis Costello

[weltklasse]

i read Steve Jones - Lonley Boy recently its mildly amusing.

[JJ]

I really enjoyed reading Life by Keith Richards, and Ozzy by Ozzy Osbourne which was laugh out loud funny in parts.

[Stellavista]

No-one Here Gets Out Alive - The Doors

[radiomike]

ditto on no-onehere gets out alive
Also Dear Boy - the life of Keith Moon - heard 'happy jack' the other day , Moon's drumming at its craziest reflecting his life.

[El Aguila]

I remember being very taken indeed with Up-Tight, the story of the Velevet Underground, when I was 18. But I was the kind of 18 year old who would be impressed by anything about the Velevet Underground. Little Richard, Quasar of Rock was the same.

[sunshine lucas]

Originally Posted by Jim Cannon

Head On was brilliant about his time with Teardrop Explodes. Just love his stories about the US tour and Gary Dwyer's antics. Hilarious

Yep love the Julian Cope books... so funny...

[hilairehair]

David Cavanagh's My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize is good for the rise/failure of the indies through the 80s. I really like Lipstick Traces,but can see it would be a bit marmite. The Luke Haines books on Britpop are very entertaining, partly because he is so bitchy about everyone. David Stubbs' stuff on krautrock is good, and Simon Reynolds' Bring the Noise and Retromania. I've never really warmed to that big Bob Stanley book, although I dip into it from time to time.