TONY FLETCHER

I was no longer fitting in at school. I was unsure of my friends, and they were increasingly unsure of me. I wanted to be a rock star. But while all around, voices were starting to break, acne beginning to appear, facial hair sprouting, I remained all flabby flesh and innate scruff, with a high-pitched whine and not a muscle to my name. I was the runt of the class and rarely allowed to forget it. I had no father at home to help me out, and could hardly talk to my mum. So I took solace in The Jam.As a boy, Tony Fletcher frequently felt out of place. Yet somehow he secured a ringside seat for one of the most creative periods in British cultural history. Boy About Town tells the story of the bestselling authors formative years in the pre- and post-punk music scenes of London, counting down, from fifty to number one: attendance at seminal gigs and encounters with musical heroes; schoolboy projects that became national success stories; the style culture of punks, mods and skinheads and the tribal violence that enveloped them; life as a latchkey kid in a single-parent household; weekends on the football terraces in a quest for street credibility; and the teenage boys unending obsession with losing his virginity.Boy About Town is an evocative, bittersweet, amusing and wholly original account of growing up and coming of age in the glory days of the 1970s.

The indispensable consumers' guide to the music of The Clash. An album by album, track by track, examination of every song released by The Clash, from their first single, White Riot to their album Co

Seus fãs acreditavam que eles eram a maior banda do mundo. Tendo iniciado a carreira em Manchester, Inglaterra, os Smiths são sucesso de crítica e público desde meados dos anos 1980. Por suas inesque

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To this day, they were, their fans believe, the best band in the world. Critics and sales figures told a similar story. Yet for all their brilliance and adoration their famously energetic live shows routinely interrupted by stage invasions The Smiths were continually plagued by their reticence to play the game, and by the time of 1987s Strangeways Here We Come, they had split. Tony Fletchers A Light That Never Goes Out part celebration, part paean moves from Manchester in the nineteenth-century to the present day to tell the complete story of The Smiths. The product of extensive research and unprecedented access, it will serve to confirm The Smiths as one of the most important and influential rock groups of all time.

A ÉPICA BIOGRAFIA DO MAIS LOUCO DOS ROCK STARS: KEITH MOON, O LENDÁRIO BATERISTA DO THE WHO.Uma das melhores biografias de rock de todos os tempos. Este livro traça a notável jornada de Keith Moon com uma preciso aguda, de sua infancia na classe trabalhadora do noroeste de Londres, passando pelos anos de gloria do The Who, ate a vida boa na California e uma morte triste e prematura.Viveu a mil por hora e por isso e reconhecido como um dos personagens mais selvagens do rock.Ao pesquisar uma historia hoje distorcida por mitos de depravaço e anarquia comica, Tony Fletcher entrevistou mais de 120 amigos, familiares, companheiros de banda, empresarios e afins. O resultado e um retrato pessoal e pungente de um garoto totalmente incorrigivel, porem de uma generosidade unica, que nunca cresceu, e que mudou as vidas de todos os que o conheceram. O primeiro e unico Keith Moon.