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SKU: 9780571351343
Categories: books, essay and memoir, music, staff picks
Tags: arts, biographical writing, bodies, consent, gender equality, mental health, music
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Faber & Faber, 2019 (paperback, 32 pages)
STAFF PICK: CATHERINE
In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn’t play an instrument and she’d never seen a girl play electric guitar. A year later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-girl band the Slits, who fearlessly took on the male-dominated music scene and became part of a movement that changed music.
A raw, thrilling story of life on the frontiers and a candid account of Viv’s life post-punk – taking in a career in film, the pain of IVF, illness and divorce and the triumph of making music again – Clothes Music Boys is a remarkable memoir.