Never understood : the Jesus and Mary Chain / William Reid, Jim Reid.

Reid, William (Musician), author
Reid, Jim (Musician), author

London : White Rabbit, 2024.

304 pages ; 24 cm

For 5 years after they'd swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours in the front room of their parents' East Kilbride council house, plotting their path to world domination over endless cups of tea, with the music turned down low so as not to wake their sleeping sister. They knew they couldn't play in the same band because they'd argue too much, so they'd describe their dream ensembles to each other until finally they realised that these two perfect bands were actually the same band, and the name of that band was The Jesus and Mary Chain. The rest was not silence, and picking up those conversations again more than 40 years later, William and Jim tell the full story of one of Britain's greatest guitar bands for the very first time - a wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug, and alcohol addiction.

9781399604109 (hbk)

782.421660922
782.4216REID
782.421
B/REI
B-REI
782.4216
782.4 REID

ML421.J49

B REI
782.42166

English

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