Renegade

Renegade

The Lives and Tales of Mark E. Smith

Summary

The only way to appreciate the legendary musician Mark E. Smith is to encounter the man in his own words.

'May be the funniest music book ever written' Observer


The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music - odd,spare, cranky and repetitious - an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, Nirvana and Franz Ferdinand.

And Mark E. Smith IS The Fall.

47 members have come and gone over the years yet he remains its charismatic leader, a professional outsider and all-round enemy of compromise, a true enigma. There have been a number of biographies of the legendary Smith, but this is the first time he has opened up in a full autobiography.

For the first time we get to hear his full, candid take on the ups and downs of a band as notorious for its in-house fighting as for its great music; and on a life that has endured prison in America, drugs, bankruptcy, divorce, and the often bleak results of a legendary thirst.

'A riot' Independent on Sunday

'Unbeatable' Time Out

'Vicious' Daily Telegraph

'Hilarious' Scotland on Sunday

Reviews

  • Unutterably funny...a riot of aimings and blamings and score-settlings. Smith manages to have a right laff, and reveal himself as a figure of dazzling sociological import
    Independent on Sunday

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Mark E. Smith

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