Can't Stand Up For Falling Down: Rock'n'Roll War Stories
- ISBN-10
- 140888593X
- ISBN-13
- 9781408885932
- Category
- Music
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-08-10
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Author
- Allan Jones
Description
Allan Jones launched Uncut magazine in 1997 and for 15 years wrote a popular monthly column called Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, based on his experiences as a music journalist in the 70s and 80s, a gilded time for the music press. By turns hilarious, cautionary, poignant and powerful, the Stop Me...stories collected here include encounters with some of rock's most iconic stars, including David Bowie, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Elvis Costello, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Smiths, R.E.M. and Pearl Jam. From backstage brawls and drug blow-outs, to riots, superstar punch-ups, hotel room confessionals and tour bus lunacy, these are stories from the madness of a music scene now long gone.
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