Cider With Roadies

Stuart Maconie

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Ebury Press
15 May 2005

Rock & Pop music; Biography: arts & entertainment; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

The hilarious coming-of-age memoir from the bestselling author of Pies and Prejudice

Cider with Roadies is the true story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop. A life lived through music from Stuart's audience with the Beatles (aged 3); his confessions as a pubescent prog rocker; a youthful gymnastic dalliance with northern soul; the radical effects of punk on his politics, homework and trouser dimensions; playing in crap bands and failing to impress girls; writing for the NME by accident; living the sex, drugs (chiefly lager in a plastic glass) and rock and roll lifestyle; discovering the tawdry truth behind the glamour and knowing when to ditch it all for what really matters.

From Stuart's four minutes in a leisure centre with MC Hammer to four days in a small van with Napalm Death it's a life-affirming journey through the land where ordinary life and pop come together to make music.

By: Stuart Maconie
Imprint: Ebury Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9780091897451
ISBN 10: 0091897459
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 15 May 2005
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stuart Maconie is a writer, broadcaster and journalist familiar to millions from his work in print, on radio and on TV. His previous bestsellers have included Cider with Roadies, Pies and Prejudice and Adventures on the High Teas, and he currently hosts the afternoon show on BBC 6music with Mark Radcliffe as well as weekly show The Freak Zone. Based in the cities of Birmingham and Manchester, he can also often be spotted on top of a mountain in the Lake District with a Thermos flask and individual pork pie.

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The English Bill Bryson -- Tony Wilson The perfect pop fan's life ... effortlessly articulate The Times Stuart Maconie is the best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton -- Peter Kay An heir to Alan Bennett ... stirring and rather wonderful -- Antony Quinn Sunday Times If you only read one personal music odyssey, make it this one GQ

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