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Sick on You
- Author
- Andrew Matheson
- Narrator
- Andrew Matheson
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 2 August 2016
- Run Time
- 9 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Directly inspiring the London SS, the Clash, and the Sex Pistols, The Hollywood Brats imploded too soon to share the glory. Punk's answer to Withnail and I, Sick on You is a startling, funny and brilliantly entertaining period memoir about never quite achieving success, despite flying so close to greatness.
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- Author
- Andrew Matheson
- Narrator
- Andrew Matheson
- Duration
- 9 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 August 2016
- ISBN
- 9781681682334
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Biography: general, Popular music, Music: styles and genres, Biography: arts and entertainment, Composers and songwriters, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Music, History of music, Music reviews and criticism
Synopsis
With only a guitar, a tatty copy of the Melody Maker, and his template for the perfect band, Andrew Matheson set out, in 1971, to make musical history. His band, The Hollywood Brats, were pre-punk prophets—uncompromising, ultra-thin, wild, untameable, and outrageous. But thrown into the crazy world of the 1970s London music scene, the Brats ultimately fell foul of the crooks and heavies that ran it and an industry that just wasn't ready for them. Directly inspiring the London SS, the Clash, and the Sex Pistols, The Hollywood Brats imploded too soon to share the glory. Punk's answer to Withnail and I, Sick on You is a startling, funny and brilliantly entertaining period memoir about never quite achieving success, despite flying so close to greatness.
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