Never Understood 9781399604123 Paperback

ATELEGRAPHMUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARA ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARANUNCUTBOOK OF THE YEARA RESIDENT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARInNever Understood, William Jim tell the story of The Jesus and Mary Chain – one of Britain’s greatest guitar bands – for the very first time.A wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders and extreme shyness – and a love letter to the Scottish working-class family -Never Understoodis a bona-fide classic of rock ‘n’ roll literature.’Here is the story of the Reid brothers’ rollercoaster life. Scream if you want to go faster: they’ll almost certainly oblige’Ian Rankin’Entertaining . . . fraught, funny and occasionally farcical’The Scotsman