The Rejects
- Author Jamie Collinson
- Narrator Mark Meadows
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Run Time 13 hours and 19 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Music, Popular music, The Arts.
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What to expect
Featuring a player rejected by both Nirvana and Soundgarden who became a decorated special forces soldier, Britpoppers who spiralled into addiction before becoming novelists and missionaries, the terrifying story of Guns N' Roses' first drummer, super-rejecting band leaders, self-destroying rappers, troubled hard rock bassists and girl-band burnouts, The Rejects takes an intimate, thoughtful look at people who've been kicked out of bands, what they experienced and what came afterwards.
Coming from a writer with twenty years' music industry experience, The Rejects is a sympathetic study of some of music's most fascinating characters, and what happens when the dream comes crashing to an end. The result is a compelling alternative history of popular music.
Critics Review
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Infectiously passionate, spiced with insider’s savvy and autobiographical asides, The Rejects threads a sequence of compulsively readable vignettes on popular music into a highly enjoyable study in one of life’s painful, universal experiences
Rob Doyle -
The Rejects is very entertaining and full of those “I never knew that . . .” snippets of trivia that make a pop-culture book really pop.
Irish Independent -
[A] lively compendium . . . Collinson’s book shows what a strange psychological experiment bands can be, harshly self-regulating when saleable craziness tips into “utter liability”
The Times -
Being in a band is all about trust, until it’s all about betrayal . . . The Rejects offers a new history of pop told from the perspective of the ones who got left behind, often on the very brink of the big time
Guardian
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