Reelin' in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life

6 best books like Reelin' in the Years: The Soundtrack of a Northern Life (Mark Radcliffe): Cider With Roadies, A Drink With Shane MacGowan, Renegade, Margrave of the Marshes, The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club, The North (And Almost Everything In It)

Cider With Roadies

Author	Stuart Maconie
ISBN	0091897459

Cider with Roadies is the 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...

A Drink With Shane MacGowan

Author	Victoria Mary Clarke
ISBN	0330490087

Hell-raiser Shane MacGowan's acclaimed and surprisingly lucid memoir This bibulous, drug-indulgent and anarchic rock legened was born on a small farm in Tipperary, won a scholarship to Westminster, was rapidly expelled, became a rent boy, then a central figure of punk and the hugely influential...

Renegade

Author	Mark E. Smith
ISBN	0670916749

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...

Margrave of the Marshes

Author	John Peel
ISBN	0552551198

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...

The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club

Author	Peter Hook
ISBN	1847371353

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...

The North (And Almost Everything In It)

Author	Paul Morley
ISBN	0747578168

Here is the north, this is where it lies, where it belongs, full of itself, high up above everything else, surrounded by everything that isn't the north, that's off the page, somewhere else...

Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five miles from Manchester and even closer to Stockport....