Cider With Roadies by Stuart Maconie - ISBN: 9780091897451
Paperback
Boy’s pop obsession: Beatles to Napalm Death, hilarious coming-of-age.

Cider With Roadies

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    15 May 2005

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Summary

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 lifest…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780091897451
ISBN-10:0091897459
Author:Stuart Maconie
Publisher:Ebury Publishing
Imprint:Ebury Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:15 May 2005
Weight:224g
Dimensions:199mm x 129mm x 21mm
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Critics Review

“The perfect pop fan’s life … effortlessly articulate.” – Times

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 *
Witty and wise, with more good lines than the Angel of the North – Hunter Davies
A working class boy who now, on air, challenges Stephen Fry’s spry wit, Maconie celebrates his younger self modestly and fluently, pausing only for regular rib-ticklers * Mojo *
Maconie makes a jovial, self-deprecating narrator. Sharp and funny * Guardian *
Exuberantly anecdotal, witty and poignant * GQ *

About The Author

Stuart Maconie

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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