Cider with roadies
Maconie, Stuart2005
Book
Journalist, writer and TV and radio presenter, Stuart Maconie is the host of Stuart Maconie's Critical List on Radio 2 and has written and presented dozens of other shows on BBC Radio. This is his personal memoir of a life lived for music. 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.
Main title:
Cider with roadies / Stuart Maconie.
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Imprint:
London : Ebury, 2005.
Collation:
307 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Previous ed.: 2003.Originally published: 2004.
ISBN:
9780091897451 (pbk)
Dewey class:
781.66092781.66092MAC(459)B MAC781.66
LC class:
ML429
Language:
English
Subject:
Maconie, StuartMusic trade -- Great BritainJournalists -- Great Britain -- BiographyTelevision personalities -- BiographyRock music -- AnecdotesRock groups -- AnecdotesBiographyPopular musicAutobiography: arts & entertainmentMusicians, singers, bands & groupsMemoirsBiography: arts & entertainmentComposers & songwritersPop musicRock
BRN:
636123