Connection is a Song
eBook - ePub

Connection is a Song

Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of the '90s

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Connection is a Song

Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of the '90s

About this book

'I love this book!' SARAH CRACKNELL, SAINT ETIENNE 'Poignant and wonderfully warm' CATHY NEWMAN, CHANNEL 4 NEWS 'Shows us how music has the power to change everything' JUDE ROGERS It is 1995. In a loft bedroom in North Yorkshire, sixteen-year-old Anna sits on the carpet immersed in the pages of the NME, listening to cassette tapes that she keeps in a shoebox. She is dreaming of living inside the songs. The very same year, British music is about to be transformed and will leap from pop to rave to Britpop. This new universe will change Anna's life. Connection is a Song is a journey through the sounds of the 1990s; the story of a life-defining love of music and the tracks that shaped this girl's adventures through the decade. It travels from the impossibly mournful 'Nothing Compares 2 U' by Sinead O'Connor to the delirium of the KLF's '3 a.m. Eternal' via the cartoon swagger of EMF's 'Unbelievable', Madonna's terrifyingly sexy 'Vogue' and the guitar indie heart of the '90s where Elastica's 'Connection' beats Blur and Oasis in Anna's own Battle of Britpop.This is a powerful, universal coming of age story - and also a coming out story - about growing up in an English provincial town, with its suspiciously sticky nightclub floors, the lingering smell of Impulse deodorant, kisses that taste of cider and songs that give Anna feelings that she has never felt before. It is the tale of an outsider who, through connections made at gigs, mysterious black feathers and conversations in smoke-filled cars, finds the people and the places that will take her to her life.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Prologue
  9. 1. All the flowers
  10. 2. Staring at clouds
  11. 3. Sliding the rails
  12. 4. Lessons from Fizz
  13. 5. Cassingles
  14. 6. Lisa’s bedroom
  15. 7. A funny feeling
  16. 8. NME territory
  17. 9. Who lives in a house like this?
  18. 10. Only girl in the record shop
  19. 11. Begone Gareths, hello Nicky
  20. 12. I’m waiting for you
  21. 13. Yes, I do feel better
  22. 14. Blu Tack wars
  23. 15. The blue Mini
  24. 16. The drunk crucifer
  25. 17. Inside a marble
  26. 18. All-nighter with Mum
  27. 19. Loo roll for Diana
  28. 20. Make me look like them
  29. 21. Is it asking too much?
  30. 22. Things worth fighting for
  31. 23. Rave marmalade
  32. 24. Happiness is dancing
  33. 25. Steal your name
  34. 26. Lords of the trance
  35. 27. Moby’s bus
  36. 28. Number one sycophant
  37. 29. Take the bomp
  38. 30. 2 a.m. eternal
  39. Afterword
  40. Discography
  41. Acknowledgements