Description
The Sunday Times' Music Book of the Year 2017 Allan Jones launched Uncut magazine in 1997 and for 15 years wrote a popular monthly column called Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, based on his experiences as a music journalist in the 70s and 80s, a gilded time for the music press. By turns hilarious, cautionary, poignant and powerful, the Stop Me... stories collected here include encounters with some of rock's most iconic stars, including David Bowie, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Elvis Costello, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Smiths, R.E.M. and Pearl Jam. From backstage brawls and drug blow-outs, to riots, superstar punch-ups, hotel room confessionals and tour bus lunacy, these are stories from the madness of a music scene now long gone.
A funny, eye-opening collection of reminiscences from one of the UK's leading music journalists.
About the Author
Allan Jones is an award-winning British music journalist and editor. In 1974, he applied for a job on the UK's best-selling music paper as a junior reporter, signing off his application with "Melody Maker needs a bullet up the arse. I'm the gun, pull the trigger". He was editor of Melody Maker from 1984 to 1997 and until 2014 editor of music and film monthly Uncut.
Reviews
This is a paean to a lost age of wild rock'n'roll and decadent rock'n'roll journalism -- Louis Wise * Sunday Times - Music Book of the Year 2017 *
Allan Jones's wildly entertaining account of observing the excesses and eccentricities of rock stars at close quarters throughout the boom years of the 1970s and 80s, and barely hanging on to his health and sanity in the process. -- Richard Wise * The Guardian *
Allan Jones' collection of stories lovingly evoke the hell and hedonism of music journalism at the peak of rock'n'roll's excess -- Dylan Jones * GQ Magazine *
These inglorious glory days are long gone, but with this book, Jones throws them one hell of a wake. -- Victoria Segal * The Sunday Times *
Mercifully he had a sense of humour, and lived to tell the tale, one of outrageous egos, unbound hedonism and an era lost to history. * Choice Magazine *
Melody Maker editor Allan Jones has a wealth of often hilarious anecdotes to tell of his backstage encounters with many of the top rock stars of the Seventies and Eighties. * Choice Magazine *
The full madness and lunacy from a time that is long gone is laid out here in all its bare-arsed glory. It is a deliciously good read. * Electronic Sound *
It is a seriously entertaining book and one that lovingly evokes a period ... when working for one of the big music papers was a real badge of honour ... it is a tremendous giggle and I urge you to read it. * British GQ *
hilarious. I was laughing out loud as I turned the pages * just backdated *
a music journalist's riotously entertaining tales from the heyday of rock. * The Sunday Times *
His hilarious new book Can't Stand Up For Falling Down recounts his career and life around the music industry, mixing with some of the most famous faces on the planet and launching the careers of some of the most celebrated artists in the music world. * The MALESTROEM *
As well as being a celebration of excess, this is also, of course, an exercise in nostalgia * Times Literary Supplement *
Book Information
ISBN 9781408885925
Author Allan Jones
Format Paperback
Page Count 360
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 290g
A funny, eye-opening collection of reminiscences from one of the UK's leading music journalists.
About the Author
Allan Jones is an award-winning British music journalist and editor. In 1974, he applied for a job on the UK's best-selling music paper as a junior reporter, signing off his application with "Melody Maker needs a bullet up the arse. I'm the gun, pull the trigger". He was editor of Melody Maker from 1984 to 1997 and until 2014 editor of music and film monthly Uncut.
Reviews
This is a paean to a lost age of wild rock'n'roll and decadent rock'n'roll journalism -- Louis Wise * Sunday Times - Music Book of the Year 2017 *
Allan Jones's wildly entertaining account of observing the excesses and eccentricities of rock stars at close quarters throughout the boom years of the 1970s and 80s, and barely hanging on to his health and sanity in the process. -- Richard Wise * The Guardian *
Allan Jones' collection of stories lovingly evoke the hell and hedonism of music journalism at the peak of rock'n'roll's excess -- Dylan Jones * GQ Magazine *
These inglorious glory days are long gone, but with this book, Jones throws them one hell of a wake. -- Victoria Segal * The Sunday Times *
Mercifully he had a sense of humour, and lived to tell the tale, one of outrageous egos, unbound hedonism and an era lost to history. * Choice Magazine *
Melody Maker editor Allan Jones has a wealth of often hilarious anecdotes to tell of his backstage encounters with many of the top rock stars of the Seventies and Eighties. * Choice Magazine *
The full madness and lunacy from a time that is long gone is laid out here in all its bare-arsed glory. It is a deliciously good read. * Electronic Sound *
It is a seriously entertaining book and one that lovingly evokes a period ... when working for one of the big music papers was a real badge of honour ... it is a tremendous giggle and I urge you to read it. * British GQ *
hilarious. I was laughing out loud as I turned the pages * just backdated *
a music journalist's riotously entertaining tales from the heyday of rock. * The Sunday Times *
His hilarious new book Can't Stand Up For Falling Down recounts his career and life around the music industry, mixing with some of the most famous faces on the planet and launching the careers of some of the most celebrated artists in the music world. * The MALESTROEM *
As well as being a celebration of excess, this is also, of course, an exercise in nostalgia * Times Literary Supplement *
Book Information
ISBN 9781408885925
Author Allan Jones
Format Paperback
Page Count 360
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 290g
