Bobby Gillespie is a singer, songwriter and founder member of the rock and roll band Primal Scream. The band's origins are in the city of Glasgow. They have released 11 albums including major hits, 'Loaded', 'Rocks', 'Country Girl' and 'Kowalski'.
Gillespie is rock and roll's Oliver Twist. A punk rock fairytale,
razor sharp on class struggle, music, style, and a singular view of
the world resulting in one of the world's great bands. Couldn't put
down
*Courtney Love*
As hugely influential and inspiring as Bobby Gillespie's music is,
we now know his genius includes the telling of this story and
reviving the ghosts that brought the music to life
*Mark Lanegan*
A righteous journey, an elegy for the transformative power of rock
and roll told with heart and soul. The Gospel according to Bobby
Gillespie
*Warren Ellis*
If they encapsualted the spirit of rock and roll in one person it
would be Bobby Gillespie. The book is affirmative not just of a
rockin' life but the beautiful working-class culture that made it.
I felt like shedding tears of joy reading it, but also enraged
about what we've lost
*Irvine Welsh*
From Rottenrow hospital to the TOTP studio, this is the enthralling
and vividly detailed story of a boy dreamed himself into a rock and
roll star
*Simon Reynolds*
Readers will be astonished by the detail in his memoir, the
extraordinary rolling energy of his prose, and his warmth,
gratitude and performerly wisdom . . . The way Gillespie writes
about music's intoxicating buzz is inspirational . . . Tenement
Kid's joy is in its undeviating belief in rock iconography
*Mojo*
A fascinating story
*Guardian*
An impassioned, elegantly written tale of self-realisation through
fandom, along with plenty of doubts and insecurities
*The Times*
An obsessive music fan who fulfilled his wildest rock star dreams,
Gillespie has found an authentic voice to desribe his often
hair-raising experiences, and the result is a rock 'n' roll
epic
*Daily Telegraph*
I can't recommend this book highly enough . . . the best
music-related book I've read this year, and essential reading for
anyone who loves and cares about alternative music
*Louder Than War*
Gillespie is a hypnotic writer and this self-aggrandising yet
self-lacerating self-portrait is, on its own terms, brutally
honest
*i Newspaper*
Tenement Kid is a thrilling read laced with copious laugh out loud
moments. This is a riveting account of how a tenement child of the
Cold War era, and his friends, created a soundtrack for the hopes
and dreams of a generation
*Irish Times*
This, as his enjoyable memoir Tenement Kid confirms, is a true
believer steeped in politics and pop culture . . . The most
arresting passages are those in which he captures the febrile,
incestuous activity of Scotland's underground music scene in the
Eighties/early Nineties . . . He also strikes an unforced yet
tangible note of melancholy: we will never be so young and free
again
*Big Issue*
Bobby Gillespie is a believer. A true disciple who, in his
autobiography Tenement Kid, is going to take you on a spiritual
journey through poverty and the struggles of a city at the end of
time, in a country being dismantled by an evil overlord with all
the might of the state behind her, and into the light and triumph
of a band finding their identity. It is a tale of redemption, of
how - through a spiritual and chemical path - rock and roll can
truly save, taking you away from the suffering to your higher self.
This is a tale of love; it is a tale of salvation . . . It does
what you expect from a rock and roll memoir but also achieves
something rare for the genre: it gives the sense that Gillespie is
still one of us
*Concrete Islands*
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