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Book Synopsis
The amazing life of Madness frontman and national treasure, Suggs
Suggs is one of pop music''s most enduring and likeable figures. Written with the assured style and wit of a natural raconteur, this hugely entertaining and insightful autobiography takes you from his colourful early life on a North London council estate, through the heady early days of Punk and 2-Tone, to the eighties, where Madness became the biggest selling singles band of the decade. Along the way he tells you what it''s like to grow up in sixties Soho, go globetrotting with your best mates, to make a dead pigeon fly and cause an earthquake in Finsbury Park.
Trade Review'Beautifully recreates the memories of his early years'
Daily Express. * Daily Express *
'Brilliantly nutty ... gloriously irreverent'
Mail on Sunday. * Mail on Sunday *
'His early life would make a novel in itself' Ian Rankin. * Ian Rankin *
'Really well written. Gripping' James Brown. * James Brown *
'Wonderfully evocative'
Scotsman. * Scotsman *
Table of ContentsIntroduction. Cavendish Mansions. Soho. The Wales. The Who, Camden, Clothes and Punk. Naughty Boys. Butcher Boy. Charlton Away. Parmesan Wheels. Sultan, the Flying Dead Pigeon. In Camden Town. New Year's Eve. The Glamour Boys. Hope and Anchor. Swanky Days! Four Wheels. Let's Go! More Crap Jobs. Making Music. Arlington House - One Better Day. This are Top of the Pops! Stop Messing About. Turning Japanese. Liquidator Studios. Hollywood. Rediffusion. Things that Go Bang in the Night. Celery. Ska. Radio-Rental. Liverpool Away. Madstock. Athens. Basso Salento. The Barbie Bike. The Back of Clive's Head. Me and My Girls. The Liberty of Norton Folgate. Up on the Roof. Closing Ceremony. Television Centre. Index. Acknowledgements.
