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10 best books like Cider With Roadies (Stuart Maconie): Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey with The Specials, Renegade, Stalin Ate My Homework, A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash, Margrave of the Marshes, Head-On/Repossessed, Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s, Different for Girls: A Girl's Own True-life Adventures in Pop, Reelin' in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life, How Soon Is Now? The Madmen & Mavericks Who Made Independent Music (1975-2005)

Ska'd for Life: A Personal Journey with The Specials
AuthorHorace Panter
As a bass player with The Specials in his second-hand suit and pork pie hat, Horace was a member of one of the most innovative and exciting bands to come snarling out of the punk era. Founded by Jerry Dammers, their fusion of punk, reggae, and ska created a new musical fashion—spearheaded by their own...
Renegade
AuthorMark E. Smith
ISBN0670916749
Reams of stuff have been written about me in the past, but never in my own words: this is the proper one’ Mark E. Smith Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music — odd, spare, cranky and circular — an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The...
Stalin Ate My Homework
AuthorAlexei Sayle
ISBN0340919582
Alexei knew he was doomed to be different the day he was taken to see Sergei Eisentein's Alexander Nevsky instead of Walt Disney's Bambi. Born on the day that egg rationing came to an end, Alexei grew up with his parents and the Soviet Weekly. Each year they holidayed in Eastern Europe, where they were shown...
A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash
AuthorJohnny Green
ISBN0571199577
Johnny Green was a footloose slacker who loved punk rock, stumbled into being a roadie for the Sex Pistols, then tripped again into a job pushing sound equipment for the Clash and driving their beat-up van to performances in the mean industrial towns of England. Disaffected youth anointed the Clash...
Margrave of the Marshes
AuthorJohn Peel
ISBN0552551198
Through nigh-on forty years of laconic brilliance on Radio 1, a musical taste which defined a culture and his widely popular Radio 4 show, Home Truths, John Peel reached out to an audience that was as diverse as his record collection. He was a genuinely great Briton, beloved by millions. John's unique...
Head-On/Repossessed
AuthorJulian Cope
ISBN0007197756
Julian Cope's highly acclaimed autobiography and its long-awaited sequel in one extraordinary volume. Contents: Julian Cope shot to fame with eighties band 'Teardrop Explodes' during the Punk era. Hailed as a visionary by those people who recognise his genius and a madman by those who find him perplexing,...
Where Did It All Go Right?: Growing Up Normal in the 70s
AuthorAndrew Collins
ISBN0091894360
Andrew Collins was born 37 years ago in Northampton. His parents never split up, in fact they rarely exchanged a cross word. No-one abused him. Nobody died. He got on well with his brother and sister and none of his friends drowned in a canal. He has never stayed overnight in a hospital and has no emotional...
Different for Girls: A Girl's Own True-life Adventures in Pop
AuthorLouise Wener
ISBN0091936519
This is a story of an ordinary girl's transformation from awkward 80s suburban pop geek to 90s jet-set pop goddess. It's about the embarrassments of growing up and experimenting with who you are and how pop music is both the comic and life-affirming soundtrack that runs through it all.

Different...
Reelin' in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life
AuthorMark Radcliffe
He shoots. He scores.

Mr Radcliffe was in front of an open goal with not even the keeper to beat. Needless to say he slotted the ball home with style and aplomb. Then again, how could he miss? 55 year old DJ, all round good guy, and music obsessive writes a book (when he was 52 years of age) about his...
How Soon Is Now? The Madmen & Mavericks Who Made Independent Music (1975-2005)
AuthorRichard King
ISBN0571243908
'If you look at all the people involved - Ivo, Tony Wilson, McGee, Geoff Travis, myself - nobody had a clue about running a record company, and that was the best thing about it.' - Daniel Miller, Mute Records

Richard King's How Soon Is Now? is a landmark survey of the record labels that make up the...
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star
AuthorTracey Thorn
ISBN1844088669
A frank and funny pop culture memoir in the vein of Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman, this is "how to be a woman artist"
 This is the story of Tracey Thorn, one half of the internationally successful group Everything But the Girl, collaborator with such artists as Paul Weller, Massive Attack,...
Post Everything: Outsider Rock and Roll
AuthorLuke Haines
ISBN0434020095
Britain in the late 1990s. Post Britpop. The dawn of the rock and roll apocalypse. If it feels like there's nothing new under the sun, that's because there is nothing new under the sun. After the death of Kurt Cobain popular culture entered, and is still in, its final phase: post everything.

Post...
Going to Sea in a Sieve
AuthorDanny Baker
ISBN0297863401
Danny Baker was born in Deptford, South East London in June 1957, and from an early age was involved in magazine journalism, with the founding of fanzine Sniffin' Glue alongside friend Mark Perry. From there he moved to documentary series for LWT and over the years worked on a variety of quiz shows (Win,...
The Story Of "Crass"
AuthorGeorge Berger
ISBN1847724647
When I first started reading this book, I was very excited. It begins with thorough details of the individual members of the band and the early art happenings, etc. Unfortunately this level of detail soon fizzled out and the book unraveled into a mess of meanderings and Rolling Stone style rock journalism....
Britpop!: Cool Britannia And The Spectacular Demise Of English Rock
AuthorJohn Harris
Beginning in 1994 and closing in the first months of 1998, the UK passed through a cultural moment as distinct and as celebrated as any since the war. Founded on rock music, celebrity, boom-time economics, and fleeting political optimism, this was "Cool Britannia." Records sold in the millions, a new...
Lost in Music
AuthorGiles Smith
ISBN0330339176
A quirky, indestructibly vulnerable and engaging piece of work. Not quirky as if ladling it on. The guy's almost self-consciously, apologetically normal in fact, but all this quirky stuff happens and he's obliged to report it, right? Having taken the advance for the memoir.

A rock journo,...
Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave
AuthorIan Johnston
ISBN0316908339
Ian Johnston's Bad Seed offers a superb overview of Nick Cave's career to date. Through Cave's fronting of the incendiary bands The Birthday Party and The Bad Seeds, producing music of unfettered expression and explosive intensity, to his creative collaborations outside of the rock industry in film...
Black Vinyl, White Powder
AuthorSimon Napier-Bell
ISBN0091869927
Just about the best book written on the business of music...the other three best books being Simon's other works: Simon started in the music industry around the same time as me- he as a musician/come 'roadie' for some serious Jazz bands...and my self as journalist then music company owner. Despite us...
The Progressive Patriot
AuthorBilly Bragg
ISBN0593053435
What does it mean to be English? What does it mean to be British? Is the cross of St. George a proud symbol of a great tradition, or the badge of a neo-Nazi? In a world where British citizens can lay bombs to kill their countrymen, where religious fundamentalism is on the increase, and where the BNP are somehow...
The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club
AuthorPeter Hook
ISBN1847371353
The Legendary musician and cofounder of Joy Division and New Order tells the whole story—the fun, the music, the vast loss of money, the legacy—of Manchester's most iconic nightclub
 
Peter Hook has been shaping the course of popular music for 30 years. He provided the propulsive...
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AuthorBill Drummond
ISBN0349112894
At the age of 45, Bill Drummond is less concerned with setting the record straight as making sure it revolves at the correct speed. Whether he's recording 'Justified and Ancient' with Tammy Wynette; contemplating the dull lunacy of the Turner prize; resisting the urge to paint landscapes; or glorying...
Daydream Nation
AuthorMatthew Stearns
There are moments on Daydream Nation when the record's aggregate narratives, boggling sound composites, and distributed energies reach a level of intensity so pitched the whole thing seems to hover on the brink of self-implosion. These moments, when the record is played at appropriately upsetting...
Unknown Pleasures
AuthorChris Ott
ISBN0826415490
Joy Division's career has often been shrouded by myths. But the truth is surprisingly simple: over a period of several months, Joy Division transformed themselves from run-of-the-mill punk wannabes into the creators of one of the most atmospheric, disturbing, and influential debut albums ever...
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