Mark Lanegan’s Sing Backwards and Weep: a memoir of sex, drugs and grunge in Nineties Seattle
Mark Lanegan – former frontman with Seattle proto-grunge pioneers the Screaming Trees – gives us an extraordinary snapshot of…
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How the Nineties dream turned sour
It was a time when we chose life. When football was coming home. When a new day was dawning,…
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Brett Anderson’s childhood memoir, Coal Black Morning, details years of struggle before Suede’s fame
The book terminates at the 200-page mark, just as the band receive their first hysterical reviews.
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The ghosts of hedonism past: a history of nightclubbing in Britain
Life After Dark: a History of British Nightclubs and Music Venues reveals the ghosts of hedonism past.
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Was there no one to stop Morrissey publishing List of the Lost?
Asking a decent editor to save this book would have been like asking a doctor to help a corpse that…
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Britpop: an insider’s tale of music’s last great gold rush
Twenty years ago, it felt like John Niven and his fellow indie kids had won pop's cold war. But…
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