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Title: Fried & Justified: Hits, Myths, Break-Ups & Breakdowns in the Record Business 1978-98
Author: HOUGHTON MICK
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 02/03/2021
Imprint: FABER & FABER
Price: $25.00
Publishing status: Active
A Book of the Year, Uncut
‘A wild rock ‘n’ roll fairground ride of the damned.’ – Observer
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We arrived in a fleet of white stretch limos at a clearing in a wood near Woking. Here the K Foundation was exhibiting a million pounds in cash, while Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty circled the perimeter in two orange Saracen armoured vehicles, blasting out Abba’s ‘Money Money Money’ . . .
Mick Houghton worked with some of the greatest, most influential and downright dysfunctional cult groups of the post-punk era and beyond – Ramones, Talking Heads, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Undertones, Felt and Sonic Youth among them.
But the three acts Mick is most closely identified with are Echo & the Bunnymen, Julian Cope, and the KLF. As confidant and co-conspirator, he navigated the minefield of rivalries and contrasting fortunes which make Fried & Justified such a candid, amusing and insightful picture of an exciting and inspirational period for music.
ISBN: 9780571336838
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 320