Name: Never Understood: The Story of The Jesus and Mary Chain
Brand: William and Jim Reid

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Rough Trade UK

Format detail

Signed by William and Jim Reid, alternate original cover artwork by Willam Reid, housed in bespoke slipcase designed by William Reid.

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Colour

Format Books EU

Hardback

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Extended format: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Signed copies

Signed copies: Yes

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Download code: No

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Release date

2024-09-05

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Catalogue number

9781399622868recordstore

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9781399622868

Hardback | Signed Copy

Extended format: No

Signed copies: No

2024-08-15

9781399604109

Artist

William and Jim Reid

Label EU

White Rabbit

Genre EU

Music

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The story of The Jesus and Mary Chain by the two founding members.

For 5 years after they'd swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours in the front room of their parents' East Kilbride council house, plotting their path to world domination over endless cups of tea, with the music turned down low so as not to wake their sleeping sister. They knew they couldn't play in the same band because they'd argue too much, so they'd describe their dream ensembles to each other until finally they realised that these two perfect bands were actually the same band, and the name of that band was The Jesus and Mary Chain.

The rest was not silence, and picking up those conversations again more than 40 years later, William and Jim tell the full story of 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, that also somehow manages to be a love letter to the Scottish working-class family.

Never Understood: The Story of The Jesus and Mary Chain

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Discover Never Understood: The Story of The Jesus and Mary Chain by William and Jim Reid. A compelling book on the iconic band, available in British English from White Rabbit.