Connection is a Song: Coming Up and Coming Out Through the Music of the '90s

The book is a journey through the sounds of the 1990s, following Anna's love of music and the tracks that shaped her adventures. It explores the connection between music and identity, and the outsider who finds the people and places that will take her to her life.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 09 May 2024
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd

Unique, dreamlike, and poetic, "Connection is a Song" is a journey through the sounds of the 1990s, telling the story of a life-defining love of music and the tracks that shaped Anna's adventures through the decade. It begins with the impossibly mournful "Nothing Compares 2 U" by Sinead O'Connor and continues through the delirium of the KLF's "3 a.m. Eternal," the cartoon swagger of EMF's "Unbelievable," Madonna's terrifyingly sexy "Vogue," and the guitar indie heart of the '90s where Elastica's "Connection" beats Blur and Oasis in Anna's own Battle of Britpop. This is a powerful, universal coming-of-age story and a coming out story about growing up in an English provincial town, with its suspiciously sticky nightclub floors, the lingering smell of Impulse deodorant, kisses that taste of cider, and songs that give Anna feelings she has never felt before. It is the tale of an outsider who, through connections made at gigs, mysterious black feathers, and conversations in smoke-filled cars, finds the people and places that will take her to her life.

Weight: 504g
Dimension: 242 x 163 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788709484