The definitive autobiography of one of the most talented,enigmatic and irascible frontmen in music's history.
Lads with no guts,I can't stand them...
More than thirty years since they came together,The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands,their music - odd,spare,cranky and repetitious - an acknowledged influence on The Smiths,The Happy Mondays,Nirvana and Franz Ferdinand.
And throughout that time Mark E. Smith remained the centre of The Fall - 47 members came and went over the years yet he remained its charismatic leader,a professional outsider and all-round enemy of compromise,a true enigma.
There have been a number of biographies of the legendary Smith,but this represents the first time he opened up in a full autobiography. For the first time we get to hear his full,candid take on the ups and downs of a band as notorious for its in-house fighting as for its great music; and on a life that endured prison in America,drugs,bankruptcy,divorce,and the often bleak results of a legendary thirst.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141028668Number of pages: 256Weight: 181 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
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'Unutterably funny...a riot of aimings and blamings and score-settlings. Smith manages to have a right laff,and reveal himself as a figure of dazzling sociological import'- Independent on Sunday
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