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Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain

William Reid, Jim Reid

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Music: styles & genres, Rock & Pop music, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands &, Autobiography: arts & entertainment, Popular culture

The story of The Jesus and Mary Chain by the two founding members

AN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024

For 5 years after they'd swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours in the front room of their parents' East Kilbride council house, plotting their path to world domination over endless cups of tea, with the music turned down low so as not to wake their sleeping sister. They knew they couldn't play in the same band because they'd argue too much, so they'd describe their dream ensembles to each other until finally they realised that these two perfect bands were actually the same band, and the name of that band was The Jesus and Mary Chain.

The rest was not silence, and picking up those conversations again more than 40 years later, William and Jim tell the full story of one of Britain's greatest guitar bands for the very first time - a wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders and extreme shyness, that also somehow manages to be a love letter to the Scottish working-class family.

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Praise for Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain

  • Art ignites in the mind and, in the case of the mary chain, churns relentlessly on to the centre stage. perhaps the definitive outcasts-saved-by-rock 'n' roll story - Irvine Welsh

  • In this entertaining autobiography, William and Jim Reid emerge as both expert chroniclers and good company... Entertaining... fraught, funny and occasionally farcical - The Scotsman

  • From the opening line to the last you get it all: addiction, poverty, success, misery, redemption. All told with a brutal, raw honesty and a dry, intoxicating realism - Nicky Wire

  • Here is the story of the Reid brothers' rollercoaster life. Scream if you want to go faster - they'll almost certainly oblige - Ian Rankin

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