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Bedsit Disco Queen Tracey Thorn

Bedsit Disco Queen By Tracey Thorn

Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn


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Bedsit Disco Queen Summary

Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star by Tracey Thorn

I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records. Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half of the group Everything But the Girl. In that time, we released nine albums and sold nine million records. We went on countless tours, had hit singles and flop singles, were reviewed and interviewed to within an inch of our lives. I've been in the charts, out of them, back in. I've seen myself described as an indie darling, a middle-of-the-road nobody and a disco diva. I haven't always fitted in, you see, and that's made me face up to the realities of a pop career - there are thrills and wonders to be experienced, yes, but also moments of doubt, mistakes, violent lifestyle changes from luxury to squalor and back again, sometimes within minutes.

Bedsit Disco Queen Reviews

The Alan Bennett of pop memoirists. I loved her book so much I wanted to form a band, too. Preferably with Thorn. -- Caitlin Moran, bestselling author of How to be a Woman As distinctive and lovely as its author's singing voice, Bedsit Disco Queen isn't just a wry and wise memoir of a unique career: it acts as a kind of eulogy for a forgotten era of British pop. -- Alexis Petridis A corker of a read: fascinating, compelling and beautifully written. -- Emma Kennedy, bestselling author of The Tent, the Bucket and Me An intensely readable account of thirty years of being in love with music ... Most would recognise her voice, with its rich blend of melancholy and yearning. Her written voice is similarly distinctive: warm, assertive, sweetly funny, but most of all honest. -- Chris Harvey Daily Telegraph As a witty and wise chronicle of a life spent dipping in and out of the limelight, this is second to none. -- Fiona Sturges Independent on Sunday

About Tracey Thorn

Tracey Thorn was singer and songwriter with Everything But the Girl from 1982-2000. At that point she semi-retired from the music business to bring up her children. She has since recorded three solo albums, Out of the Woods, Love and Its Opposite, and Tinsel and Lights. She lives in London with her husband Ben Watt and their three children.

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GOR004657781
9781844088669
1844088669
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star by Tracey Thorn
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Little, Brown Book Group
2013-02-07
384
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