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This is Pop - Ed Jones

Description: ISBN 0862418801 / Author: Ed Jones / Genre: Music

Newest Review: ... besides. The Tansads hailed from Wigan, in an era before The Verve had been courted by the paparazzi and made the northwest ... more

... a fashionably unfashionable place to be from. This was the late eighties and any band from this part of the world was automatically subjected to puns about whippets and flat caps by the London based music press. With Wigan there was the added temptation of using the word pier in the title, or peer if the writer was particularly clever. On paper the band seem to be an easy target, although their music was original, full of pop sensibility but able to charge headlong into the realms of heavy rock, it also had a love affa...more

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This is Pop - Ed Jones: How not to get ahead in music (878 words)
by - written on 11/01/07 (Very useful, 270 readings)
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I think it is fair to say that the band known to musical history, as The Tansads doesn’t induce a spark of recognition in most people. In fact if that were not the case, this book would never had been written. Subtitled “the life and times of a failed rock star” Ed Jones autobiographical odyssey is the antidote to all the success stories, rags to riches, poor boy makes good rubbish that this celebrity loving culture of ours would have you believe happens every day. In the world of the celebrity-obsessed media, million to one shots make good nine times out of ten, if you believe the media coverage. “This is Pop” on the other hand is the reality of a normal, well ... Read the complete review

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