Fried & justified : hits, myths, break-ups and breakdowns in the record business 1978-98
Houghton, Mick2019
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The list of bands and artists Mick Houghton worked with in an illustrious career in the music business reads like a Who's Who of some of the greatest, most influential and downright dysfunctional cult groups of the post-punk era and beyond - Ramones, Talking Heads, The Undertones, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Felt, Sonic Youth, The Wedding Present, Spiritualized and Elastica among them. Often judiciously (or unintentionally) sidestepping the major trends in music - baggy, grunge and Britpop - his reputation for attracting outsiders led to him working with artists as disparate as Sun Ra, Andrew Oldham, Ken Kesey, Bert Jansch, Stereolab, Mercury Rev and Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. But the three acts Mick is most closely identified with are Echo and the Bunnymen, Julian Cope (and the Teardrop Explodes) and the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu/KLF in all their guises.
Main title:
Fried & justified : hits, myths, break-ups and breakdowns in the record business 1978-98 / Mick Houghton ; foreword by Bill Drummond.
Author:
Houghton, Mick, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2019.
Collation:
xiv, 299 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780571336821 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
781.640904781.6409 HOU
Language:
English
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BRN:
1900191
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