Name: Barbed Wire Kisses: The Jesus and Mary Chain Story
Brand: Zoe Howe

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

9781250810397

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Format Books US

Paperback

Format detail

Limited edition

Release date

2014-11-11

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Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Macmi­llan

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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Artist

Zoe Howe

Genre US

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Label US

St. Martin's Press

Music

Musically, culturally and even in terms of sheer attitude, the Jesus and Mary Chain stand alone. Their seminal debut album Psychocandy changed the course of popular music, and their iconic blend of psychotic white noise and darkly surreal lyrics that presaged the shoegaze movement continues to enchant and confound.

Zoë Howe's biography is the fierce, frank and funny tale of the Jesus and Mary Chain, told by the band members and their associates for the very first time. The story begins in the faceless town of East Kilbride, near Glasgow, at the dawn of the 1980s with two intense, chronically shy brothers, Jim and William Reid, listening to music in their shared bedroom. What follows charts an unforgettable journey complete with incendiary live performances, their pivotal relationship with Alan McGee's Creation Records and those famous fraternal tensions—with plenty of feedback, fighting, and crafting perfect pop music along the way. It is high time this vastly influential group and sometime public enemy had their say.

Barbed Wire Kisses: The Jesus and Mary Chain Story

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