A hobby I keep working in is reading books like this. Rites of passage portraits of the music artist as a young man. Bildungsroman. There are no end of books like this Julian Cope, Bobby Gillespie. Will Sergeant. Paul Simpson. Cataloguing the Punk Years and the records the main players bought. The gigs they went to. The clothes they wore. Their searches for a girlfriend,
Gordon King's book is good. He can write. He doesn't take hiself remotely serious. Like Gillespie for example. I found Tenement Kid emotionally dictored. The official account. King by contrast comes across as likeable and honest. What makes his own book wprthwhile is that like Segeant he documents his reluctance to let go of the Prog records which are his furst love even as he falls for the Post Punk bands that most take his fancy. In King's case Utravox! and Joy Division. Pages 25-50 of When Does The Mind-Bending Start ? sees the future members of World Of Twist coming together. It's all well plotted.
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