This is not a bad book. Far from it. It's excellent. One of the best set of memoirs of a musician you could ever wish to read. Most interestingly a musician who never had an actual hit. Apart from Care's Flaming Sword which made the Top 50 briefly in 1983.
But no Killing Moon. No Lucky You. No Reward. Paul is happy with his lot and this book is probably the thing he'll be most proud of. And deservedly so. It's something to be really proud of. In the words of Bill Drummond one of the main characters in the book;' it 'Reads like a Penguin Modern Classic. And not in a Morrissey way, but a proper way.
Revoutonary Spirit draws to a close. I have 17 pages left and will finish tomorrow. In the meantime you get Marvin Gaye.
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