*** 'Eddie was there very early doors. His story is of the many.'
Paul Weller 'A total riot! Takes me right back to the 70s. A Superb
book' Mani, The Stone Roses 'What a wonderful book. Mod isn't about
what decade you lived in, it's about your attitude, and this book
has tons of it' Kenney Jones, The Small Faces WITH A FOREWORD BY
PAUL WELLER This is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End
of London. A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with
punk, funk, record shops, discos and clothes, and then... WHAAAM!
An unstoppable wave of like-minded kids fall headlong in love with
60s mod culture, revived and reformatted for the 70s and 80s
generation. Eddie Piller was one such kid. His life was changed
forever. Written with humour, passion and attention to detail,
CLEAN LIVING UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES is perhaps the ultimate
mod memoir, taking us from meeting the Small Faces as a toddler, to
the 1979 Mod revival, through the more purist 1980s mod scene and
eventually to Acid Jazz. A born storyteller, Eddie takes us
evocatively into a world of scooters, clothes, and music. We run
with the crowd to decaying seaside towns, East End backstreet
boozers and sweaty teenage gigs, all fizzing with an uncontainable
excitement and often exploding into violence. Once mod touched your
soul it changed the way you looked at life, unexpectedly broadening
your horizons. In Eddie it awakens a can-do attitude that sees him
setting up a fanzine, putting on club nights, hustling jobs in the
music industry, and eventually setting up a record label. It even
takes him to Ireland at the height of the troubles and to Australia
where the local mods take him on a military exercise... Visceral
and always entertaining, CLEAN LIVING UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES
is a stand-out memoir that relives the thrill of the 70s and 80s,
and the movement that helped make mod the most enduring and
successful British youth culture of all time.
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