How to Be a Rock Star
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Narrated by:
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Shaun Ryder
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Shaun Ryder
About this listen
As lead singer of Happy Mondays and Black Grape, Shaun Ryder was the Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of his generation - one of the last real rock 'n' roll stars. A true rebel, who formed and led not one but two seminal bands, he's had number-one albums, headlined Glastonbury, toured the world numerous times, taken every drug under the sun, been through rehab - and come out the other side as a national treasure. He's been the subject of several films, written a Sunday Times best-selling autobiography, was runner-up on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and is a star of Celebrity Gogglebox.
Now, for the first time, he lifts the lid on the real inside story of how to be a rock star. With insights from three decades touring the world, which took him from Salford to San Francisco, from working men's clubs to headlining Wembley, Shaun gives readers a fly-on-the-wall look at the rock 'n' roll lifestyle - warts and all: how to be a rock star - and also how not to be a rock star. From numerous Top of the Pops appearances to being banned from live TV, from being a figurehead of the acid-house scene to hanging with the Rolling Stones and Johnny Depp, Shaun has seen it all. In this book he pulls the curtain back on the debauchery of the tour bus, ridiculous riders, run-ins with record companies, drug dealers and the mafia, and how he forged the most remarkable rock 'n' roll comeback of all time.
©2021 Shaun Ryder (P)2021 Atlantic Books Ltd & W. F. Howes LtdCritic reviews
"There are enough stories about Happy Mondays to keep people talking about them forever. Bands live on through the myth really, myth and legend." (Steve Lamacq)
"If ever a book was meant to be read by its author, it's this one. Shaun Ryder's voice and delivery are perfect - so evocative. It's funny and irreverent as you'd expect but I loved hearing about how seriously the Mondays took the music, even if they didn't always take themselves seriously. Ryder says he's never cared about being cool which makes him the coolest bloke ever. Highly highly recommended." (Erin Kelly, Sunday Times best-selling author)
Loved the Mondays back in the day and still do. They were working class kids like us, who's talent and originality took them places we'd only dreamed of. This book is full of anecdotes from Shaun's very long career, and the ups and downs of life in the music business - and Shaun's had his fair share of them. Interesting too was the affect his ADHD - only recently diagnosed - has had on his life. I could really relate this having been diagnosed with Autism long after my kids were. Neurodiversity and the way people's brains are wired fascinates me.
What's really good about this book is it's narrated by Shaun Ryder himself. There's literally nobody else who tell his story.
Loved every minute
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Total F@kin LEGEND!!!
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I listened to it driving up and down the m6.
I list to a lot when driving.
I enjoyed this one the most so far.
listened to it all in a couple of drives and didn't get bored.
Twisted my Mellon man
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excellent
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loved it shaun is funny af
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