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To Be Someone (Paperback)
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To Be Someone (Paperback)
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Loot Price R265
Discovery Miles 2 650
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'Ian Stone has one of the sharpest comic minds in the country. I
would read anything he's written about anything. This book made me
start listening to The Jam' Romesh Ranganathan'Full of wit, cheek
and energy - not just for fans of The Jam, this is for fans of
London, of youth, of life itself' Rory Bremner 'This is a funny,
fascinating, absorbing, surprising and readable book with the added
bonus of Phill Jupitus's delicious cartoons . . . A book for anyone
who is now middle-aged and looking back joyfully at their youth' Jo
Brand'I really liked this book. I'd forgotten how shit it was in
the seventies' Paul Weller Ian Stone grew up in a Jewish,
working-class house in north London in the mid-1970s. Everywhere
around him, adults were behaving badly. His parents' relationship
was in freefall so he tried not to spend too much time at home. But
outside, there was industrial unrest, football violence, racism and
police brutality. As for the music, it was all 'Save All Your
Grandma's Kisses for My Love Sweet Jesus'. It made him feel
physically sick. Then The Jam appeared. This is Ian's story of that
time. Of weekend jobs so that he could go to gigs. Of bunking into
the Hammersmith Odeon and ending up on the roof. Of going to see
The Jam in Paris and somehow finding himself being interviewed for
Melody Maker. Of attempting to keep out of the way of skinheads and
trying (and failing) to work out how to talk to girls. And of
devastation when in 1982 Paul Weller announced that the band were
splitting up. There will never be another band like The Jam. For
those who went on that journey with them, the love ran deep. And
still does. They helped Ian and thousands like him to grow up - to
be someone.
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