
- 334 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Musically, culturally and in terms of sheer attitude, The Jesus and Mary Chain stand alone. Their seminal debut albumPsychocandychanged the course of popular music with its iconic blend of psychotic white noise, darkly surreal lyrics and pop sensibility, and the band continue to enchant and confound.This fierce, frank and often funny tale begins in the faceless new town of East Kilbride, near Glasgow, at the dawn of the 1980s with two chronically shy brothers, Jim and William Reid, listening to music in their shared bedroom. What follows charts the formation of The Jesus and Mary Chain, their incendiary live performances, their relationship with Alan McGee's Creation Records and those famous fraternal tensions that prepared McGee for the onslaught of the Gallaghers, with plenty of feedback, fighting and, most importantly, perfectly crafted pop along the way. It is time this vastly influential group and sometime 'public enemy' had their say.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Sleeve Notes
- 1 New Town, Punk Rock, Dole Queue
- 2 Acid, Paint Factory, Portastudio
- 3 Gillespie, McGee and a Green Ink Letter
- 4 The Living Room
- 5 Night Moves, More Acid and Disaster in Wonderland
- 6 Upside Down
- 7 Murray Leaves, Bobby Joins, Germany Beckons
- 8 Peel Session, The Three Johns, NME Falls in Love
- 9 Brothels, Barbed Wire, Blanco Y Negro
- 10 Tea and Cakes with Travis
- 11 Escape From EK
- 12 Smashing up Pop
- 13 New York, Innocence Lost, Psychocandy
- 14 Rants, Reality and Trouble in the Ballroom
- 15 Milestones/Millstones
- 16 Besotted Americans and Burst Eardrums
- 17 Alcohol, Speed, Farewell McGee
- 18 White Noise, Black Moods
- 19 Do Not Smile
- 20 Meatheads, a Mic-Stand and the Drunk Tank
- 21 Acid House, Sugarcubes and a Trip behind the Iron Curtain
- 22 Crash and Burn
- 23 Remake, Remodel
- 24 Rollercoaster, Lollapalooza, Cocaine Blues
- 25 Stoned and Dethroned
- 26 Love, Hate, a Departure and a Homecoming
- 27 Cracking Up
- 28 Changes
- 29 Fear, Film-Stars and the Future
- Timeline
- Sources
- Discography
- Credits
- Index