Name: Tenement Kid
Brand: Bobby Gillespie

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

9781474624886SIGNED

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Discs

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format Books US

Hardback

Format detail

White Rabbit Collector's Rough Trade Edition, Hand numbered, Lyric Stamp, Specially Designed Endpapers, Bespoke Slipcase

Limited edition

1000

Release date

2021-10-22

Signed copies

Signed copies: Yes

Supplier US

RTUK

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

9781474624886

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1 / Extended format: Yes / Hardback / Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes / Signed copies: Yes / red

Artist

Bobby Gillespie

Genre US

Music Books

Label US

White Rabbit

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Tenement Kid is Bobby Gillespie's story up to the recording and release of the album that has been credited with starting the 90's, Screamadelica. Born into a working class Glaswegian family in the summer of 1961, Bobby's memoirs begin in the district of Spring burn, soon to be evacuated in Edward Heath's brutal slumclearances. Leaving school at 16 and going to work as a printers' apprentice, Bobby's rock n roll epiphany arrives like a bolt of lightning shining from Phil Lynott's mirrored pickguard at his first gig at the Apollo in Glasgow. Filled with 'the holy spirit of rock n roll' his destiny is sealed with the arrival of the Sex Pistols and punk rock which to Bobby, represents an iconoclastic vision of class rebellion and would ultimately lead to him becoming an artist initially in the Jesus and Mary Chain then in Primal Scream.Structured in four parts, Tenement Kid builds like a breakbeat crescendo to the finalquarter of the book, the Summer of Love, Boys Own parties, and the fateful meeting with Andrew Weatherall in an East Sussex field. As the '80s bleed into the '90s and a new kind of electronic soul music starts to pulse through the nation's consciousness, Primal Scream become the most innovative British band of the new decade, representing a newpsychedelic vanguard taking shape at Creation Records.Ending with the release of Screamadelica and the tour that followed in the autumn, Tenement Kid is a book filled with the joy and wonder of a rock n roll apostle who would radically reshape the future sounds of fin de siècle British pop. Published thirty years after the release of their masterpiece, Bobby Gillespie's memoir cuts a righteous path through a decade lost to Thatcherism and saved by acid house.<br>

Tenement Kid

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