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Book SynopsisCider with Roadies is the true 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 and trouser dimensions; playing in crap bands and failing to impress girls; writing for the NME by accident; living the sex, drugs (chiefly lager in a plastic glass) and rock and roll lifestyle; discovering the tawdry truth behind the glamour and knowing when to ditch it all for what really matters.
From Stuart''s four minutes in a leisure centre with MC Hammer to four days in a small van with Napalm Death it''s a life-affirming journey through the land where ordinary life and pop come together to make music.
Trade ReviewThe English Bill Bryson -- Tony Wilson
The perfect pop fan's life ... effortlessly articulate * The Times *
Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton -- Peter Kay
An heir to Alan Bennett ... stirring and rather wonderful -- Antony Quinn * Sunday Times *
If you only read one personal music odyssey, make it this one * GQ *
