How to Be a Rock Star

Shaun Ryder, the lead singer of Happy Mondays and Black Grape, shares his insights and experiences in his new book, "How to Be a Rock Star: And How Not to Be a Rock Star." The book offers a fly-on-the-wall look at the rock 'n' roll lifestyle, including stories about touring the world, recording albums, and encountering the music industry's challenges and debauchery.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 07 October 2021
Publisher: Atlantic Books

The Top Ten Bestseller
Candid, Brilliant, and Bizarre
Guardian
Stories about the frontman and his bandmates are legion. [like] Peter Kay with menaces.
The Sunday Times
As lead singer of Happy Mondays and Black Grape, Shaun Ryder was the Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of his generation. A true rebel, who formed and led not one but two seminal bands, he's had number-one albums, headlined Glastonbury, toured the world numerous times, taken every drug under the sun, been through rehab - and come out the other side as a national treasure.

Now, for the first time, Shaun lifts the lid on the real inside story of how to be a rock star. With insights from three decades touring the world, which took him from Salford to San Francisco, from playing working men's clubs to headlining Glastonbury and playing in front of the biggest festival crowd the world has ever seen, in Brazil, in the middle of a thunderstorm. From recording your first demo tape to having a number-one album, Shaun gives a fly-on-the-wall look at the rock 'n' roll lifestyle - warts and all: how to be a rock star - and also how not to be a rock star.

From numerous Top of the Pops appearances to being banned from live TV, from being a figurehead of the acid-house scene to hanging out backstage with the Rolling Stones, Shaun has seen it all. In this book, he pulls the curtain back on the debauchery of the tour bus, ridiculous riders, run-ins with record companies, drug dealers, and the mafia, and how he forged the most remarkable comeback of all time.

There are enough stories about Happy Mondays to keep people talking about them forever. Bands live on through the myth, really, myth, and legend (Steve Lamacq).

Weight: 630g
Dimension: 162 x 245 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781838953249
Edition number: Main