Mark E. Smith founded Manchester band The Fall in 1977, one of a great trio of bands (with Joy Division and the Buzzcocks) to come out of the city at that time. They released a remarkable 111 albums, and went through 66 different members over their 41 year existence. There was just one constant: Mark E. Smith, who continued releasing and touring right up until his untimely death in January 2018.
Ranting, raging, burning...relentlessly splenetic, a long and
sustained rant...may also be the funniest music book ever
written
*Observer*
Unutterably funny...a riot of aimings and blamings and
score-settlings. Smith manages to have a right laff, and reveal
himself as a figure of dazzling sociological import
*Independent on Sunday*
Remarkable, brilliant. A provocative joy. Smith's rant gushes like
a furious fountain of razor-sharp invective over his childhood and
the early days of The Fall, relationships/ marriage, the record
industry/ musicians and his views on everything from football to
mobile phones, from drinking and drugs to driving, from books to
bankruptcy, from Paul Morley to pubs. Unbeatable' Time Out
Engrossing, exhausting, dense with fascinating detail. As both
memoir and cultural history, Renegade is a remarkable
achievement
*Daily Telegraph*
A hoot
*Hot Press*
Stuffed with crazy wisdom
*London Lite*
Hilarious
*Scotland on Sunday*
A wide-ranging, eccentric set of fugitive opinions, a smart
marshalling of numerous rambling pub conversations
*The Times Literary Supplement*
Vicious, funny, always contrarian
*Daily Telegraph*
Smith's about as reliable a narrator as the members of Motley Crue
were in their depraved memoir The Dirt. And just as entertaining.
Delving into Renegade is like listening to Smith hold court down
the pub...it contains far too many astute, poetic observations to
be dismissed as colourful ramblings from a committed curmudgeon
*Scotsman*
Unutterably funny...a riot of aimings and blamings and
score-settlings. Smith manages to have a right laff, and reveal
himself as a figure of dazzling sociological import
*Independent on Sunday*
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