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Creation Stories - Riots, Raves and Running a Label (Paperback, Unabridged edition) Loot Price: R351
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Creation Stories - Riots, Raves and Running a Label (Paperback, Unabridged edition): Alan McGee

Creation Stories - Riots, Raves and Running a Label (Paperback, Unabridged edition)

Alan McGee

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'Essential reading for anyone interested in the heady, vulgar, marvellous miasma of British music and culture in the nineties' - Irving Welsh 'A true believer in the power of music and more importantly a believer in the people that make music. He gave me and many more like me a chance to change my life' - Noel Gallagher Alan McGee's Creation Stories is a star-studded, outrageous, funny and anarchic account of the record label he set up and the bands that defined an era, including Primal Scream and Oasis. A charismatic Glaswegian who partied just as hard as any of the acts on his notoriously hedonistic label, Alan McGee became an infamous character in the world of music in the nineties. In Creation Stories he tells his story in depth for the first time, from leaving school at sixteen to setting up the Living Room club in London which showcased many emerging indie bands, from managing the Jesus and Mary Chain to co-founding Creation when he was only twenty-three. His label brought us acts like My Bloody Valentine, House of Love, Ride and, of course, Primal Scream. Embracing acid house, Alan decamped to Manchester and hung out at the Hacienda. His drug-induced breakdown, when it came, was dramatic. But as he climbed back to sobriety, he oversaw Oasis's rise to become one of the biggest bands in the world. Alan himself becoming one of the figureheads of Britpop. Having sold the label to Sony to stave off bankruptcy, he became disenchanted with the increasingly corporate ethos and left in 1999. Since then he's continued to be an influential figure in the music industry, managing the Libertines and setting up a new label, 359 Music, with Cherry Red. 'Studded with diamond anecdotes . . . From mixing sound for My Bloody Valentine on mushrooms, via driving motorists off the road by commissioning billboard posters of Kevin Rowland flashing his pants, to escorting Carl Barat to A&E with one eyeball hanging out of its socket, the book bursts with tall-but-true tales.' - NME

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Imprint: Pan Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2014
Authors: Alan McGee
Dimensions: 196 x 132 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 336
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-4472-2591-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Music industry
Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
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LSN: 1-4472-2591-0
Barcode: 9781447225911

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