Cider with Roadies is the true story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics,homework and trouser dimensions; playing in crap bands and failing to impress girls; writing for the NME by accident; living the sex,drugs (chiefly lager in a plastic glass) and rock and roll lifestyle; discovering the tawdry truth behind the glamour and knowing when to ditch it all for what really matters.From Stuart's four minutes in a leisure centre with MC Hammer to four days in a small van with Napalm Death it's a life-affirming journey through the land where ordinary life and pop come together to make music.
Publisher: Ebury PublishingISBN: 9780091897451Number of pages: 320Weight: 218 gDimensions: 198 x 126 x 19 mm
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The English Bill BrysonThe perfect pop fan's life...effortlessly articulateStuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to BoltonAn heir to Alan Bennett...stirring and rather wonderfulIf you only read one personal music odyssey,make it this one
Stuart Maconie
Stuart Maconie is a British journalist,author,DJ and television presenter,who has penned books on popular music,social history and British travel,as well as the acclaimed memoir Cider with Roadies. His latest book is The Nanny State Made Me.
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