The Alternative Hero

The Alternative Hero

Tim Thornton

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Penguin Random House UK
Año de edición:
2010
ISBN:
9780099531784
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By the time most people hit 30 they’ve managed to do one of the following things:1. Grow up2. Quit idolising rock stars3. Move on a bit from the music they were obsessed with at the age of 17.Clive Beresford has failed to do all three. But that’s about to change.One unremarkable Saturday morning Clive sees the biggest alternative-pop star of them all walking down the high street with his dry-cleaning: Lance Webster disgraced ex-singer of Thieving Magpies (’the biggest British band to emerge from the late-eighties indie-boom’ Rolling Stone). Clive hatches a ramshackle plan to befriend his idol and grab the scoop of a lifetime - why did Webster burn out? The ensuing chaos forces both men to revisit the sweat feedback T-shirts stage-dives hitch-hikes snakebites and hangovers of British alternative rock at the start of the nineties; to quote Lance Webster himself ’before Britpop came along and fucked everything up’...

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