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Can't Stand Up For Falling Down

Can't Stand Up For Falling Down

Rock'n'Roll War Stories

by Allan Jones
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/10/2018

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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.

“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

“Encounters of the Crazy Kind” – Victoria Segal, The Sunday Times

ISBN:
9781408885925
9781408885925
Category:
Rock & Pop music
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-10-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
198x130x29mm
Weight:
0.29kg
Allan Jones

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.

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