Description: Like-new condition. Cover is excellent. Pages are excellent, no creasing. Exterior edges of pages (visible from a shelf) have some discoloration from shelving. If you love music, punk, feminism, dropping names, punk rock history, or unique memoirs, grab this. From The Guardian: “There’s a moment towards the end of this book when Viv Albertine confronts an audience she feels has not been giving her enough attention or respect. To put this outburst in context: it is 2008, and she has had to relearn the guitar from scratch after decades of not playing. (For readers unfamiliar with Albertine: she was the guitarist and songwriter for a punk band called the Slits, about whom more in a minute.) Almost utterly without confidence in her own abilities and, in her 50s, constantly mistaken for a folk singer when she gets on stage, she is sustained later by kind words from people who say her songs have touched them, or even, once, reminded them of the Slits, and finally manages to get her mojo back. “I don’t take shit any more when I play. One night in front of a crowd of braying ponytailed old rockers I shout, ‘Anyone here ever taken heroin? Made a record?’ There’s a stunned silence. ‘Well I have, so shut the fuck up or go home and polish your guitar.’ “ “It’s eye-opening, and serves her well later, as she recounts, with absolute clarity, her post-Slits life of doomed relationships, motherhood, cancer and the death of friends. Her character runs through the book like letters through a stick of rock, and this is more a lesson in how to look back from middle age than it is a conventional rock memoir – no self-aggrandisement, but occasionally a quiet, defiant pride in her achievements. The list of which, I am delighted to note from her latest music, continues to grow.” -Lezard, The Guardian, 2015.
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Book Title: Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys
Book Series: Faber Social Ser.
Item Length: 7.8 in
Original Language: English
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 2019-02-07
Language: English
Item Height: 1 in
Personalized: No
Topic: Genres & Styles / Punk, Memoir, Personal Memoirs, Music, Feminism
Item Width: 5.1 in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Publication Year: 2019
Era: 2010s
Illustrator: Yes
Author: Viv Albertine
Genre: Music, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Politics & Society, Sociology, Personal & Professional Development, Historical, Art & Culture, Biographies & True Stories
Item Weight: 11.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
