Pop Scars: A memoir on fame, addiction and the dark side of 90s pop - 'Unflinching and unmissable', HEAT...

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Anthony Kavanagh

Pop Scars

A memoir on fame, addiction and the dark side of 90s pop - 'Unflinching and unmissable', HEAT...

Anthony Kavanagh

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Hardback

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English

BLINK Publishing
04 November 2025

Rock & Pop music; Biography; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; Memoirs; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Addiction & therapy

The shocking, tell-all memoir from '90s popstar and heart-throb formerly known as Kavana

Born in Manchester in 1977, Anthony Kavanagh's rise to fame was stratospheric, scoring a record deal at the age of just eighteen and winning the much-coveted Smash Hits Male Artist of the Year Award in 1997, all the while achieving top ten hits, appearing on countless magazine covers, performing on Top of the Pops and gigging alongside the Spice Girls. The stuff that dreams are made of.

But Anthony - or Kavana as he came to be known - was also trying to keep his sexuality a secret while navigating his way through an industry where image was everything; where his success depended on him having to be exactly who he wasn't.

What followed was a dark and dangerous spiral into addiction, an illness that would insidiously follow and baffle him for years to come. Pop Scars is a story told with fearless honesty that's at times as funny as it is heartbreaking, chronicling the highs, the lows, the self-destruction and the chaos of hitting rock bottom and then finding out that rock bottom has a basement.

Thirty years on, Anthony is ready to tell his jaw-dropping story. Pop Scars is a book about teenage stardom, fame, addiction, grief and - ultimately - survival and sobriety.

By: Anthony Kavanagh
Imprint: BLINK Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 532g
ISBN: 9781785123122
ISBN 10: 1785123122
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 04 November 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Anthony Kavanagh, is a writer, singer and songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1990s with a number of hit singles, including 'I Can Make You Feel Good' and 'MFEO'. He lives in London.

Reviews for Pop Scars: A memoir on fame, addiction and the dark side of 90s pop - 'Unflinching and unmissable', HEAT Magazine

'Raw, funny and completely fearless... told with the singer's down-to-earth wit, warmth and brutal honesty, this is a wild, moving and ultimately redemptive ride through the highs and horrors of fame, addiction, grief and survival. Unflinching - and unmissable.' -- Lisa Howells * HEAT Magazine *