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21%OFFMark Ellen - Rock Stars Stole My Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music - 9781444775518 - V9781444775518
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Rock Stars Stole My Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music

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Description for Rock Stars Stole My Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music Paperback. New adventures in Rock and Roll. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: AVGP; BGFA; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 262.

'The book is f***ing BRILLIANT! Just arrived NYC and wanked myself laughing. Literally tears. Irritated looks all around. What a great writer you are. It's a classic. You absolutely got the whole shite early 70s thing down precisely as it was. Names, smells, sounds, looks, the food, drink, girls, boys! Mega! Well done.' - Bob Geldof

In a sodden tent at a '70s festival, the teenage Mark Ellen had a dream. He dreamt that music was a rich meadow of possibility, a liberating leap to a sparkling future, an industry of human happiness - and he wanted to be ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
250g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444775518
SKU
V9781444775518
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Mark Ellen
Award-winning writer and broadcaster Mark Ellen was born at the wrong time. Five years older and he would have seen The Beatles and The Byrds; five years younger and he'd have been plunged into punk rock. He spent his teenage years sitting at the feet of bands like Hookfoot, Wishbone Ash and Brewers Droop -- the half-baked rear guard of ... Read more

Reviews for Rock Stars Stole My Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music
Full of engaging asides and deft, sometimes unsparing pen-portraits, this autobiographical souffle ends with three passages of unexpectedly disturbing power, in which Ellen glimpses the fate of a form of entertainment that has lost the sense of purpose and proportion it possessed during the years when his own tastes were being formed...It is a tribute to Ellen's resilience that not ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Rock Stars Stole My Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music


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