The Fallen : life in and out of Britain's most insane group / Dave Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simpson, Dave, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Mark E., 1957-2018.

Smith, Mark E.

Fall (Musical group).

Rock musicians--Great Britain--Biography.

Rock musicians.

Rock musicians--England--Biography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (323 p. ) ill.

Edition:

[New] ed.

Other Title:

Fallen

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Canongate, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Fall are one of the world's most iconic groups, led for the last 30 years by Mark E. Smith. They have released nearly 30 studio albums, with in excess of 50 musicians passing through their ranks. Dave Simpson has spend two years tracking down everyone who has ever played in The Fall. Ever been thrown off the bus in the middle of a Swedish forest or asked to play at one of the UK's biggest music festivals with musicians you've just met who are covered in blood? If so you've probably been in The Fall. Dave Simpson made it his mission to track down everyone who has ever played in Britain's most berserk, brilliant group. He uncovers a changing Britain, tales of madness and genius, and wreaks havoc on his own life.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Epigraph

In Loving Memory of The Fallen

Prologue: Remembering The Fallen

Chapter One: 'It's Like Football. Every so often you've got to replace the centre-forward.'

Chapter Two: 'The night it all went apeshit.'

Chapter Three: 'Sorry, boss ... I am only a drummer.'

Chapter Four: 'After a while in The Fall you're no longer normal.'

Chapter Five: 'I'm losing my hair through stress!'

Chapter Six: 'We were best friends who fell out.'

Chapter Seven: 'I knew Mark got me in to fuck off friel.'

Chapter Eight: 'I took a lot of drugs and was a bit of a nutcase!'

Chapter Nine: 'There was an outbreak of fleas.'

Chapter Ten: 'I was living this incredible double life!'

Chapter Eleven: 'There are a lot of skeletons in the Fall cupboard, stories that haven't been told.'

Chapter Twelve: 'I'm not an arsonist, I work for the BBC!'

Chapter Thirteen: 'A whole different universe.'

Chapter Fourteen: ''Ello, luv. Are you having a nice holiday?'

Chapter Fifteen: 'It was like some kind of medieval Italian principality. Or a Chinese court, full of would-be sycophants and mandarins.'

Chapter Sixteen: 'Dependency on the organisation ... attack the self.'

Chapter Seventeen: 'Creative management, cock!'

Chapter Eighteen: 'He looks much the same as he ever did - short hair, glass eye.'

Chapter Nineteen: 'I neither left nor got sacked.'

Chapter Twenty: 'He smashed up my keyboards quite often. It was an occupational hazard.'

Chapter Twenty-One: 'It was like your last tour of Vietnam, with appropriate flashbacks and nightmares.'

Chapter Twenty-Two: 'He had a face like a mouse's snout.'

Chapter Twenty-Three: 'Dear Mark, you're my hero. Maybe when I'm of legal drinking age we could go for a drink?'

Chapter Twenty-Four: 'We'd had abuse and death threats!'.

Chapter Twenty-Five: 'I'm proud that I survived three years before the first punch-up.'

Chapter Twenty-Six: 'He'd knock on the windows or sing through the letter-box!'

Chapter Twenty-Seven: 'So what do you do? Are you in a group?'

Chapter Twenty-Eight: 'It Was like spontaneous combustion.'

Chapter Twenty-Nine: 'I'm becoming a travelling minstrel.'

Chapter Thirty: 'Come on, cock, you can do it. We'll have a rehearsal before you go on.'

Chapter Thirty-One: 'If you're a mate, you can tell him to fuck off!'

Chapter Thirty-Two: 'It was all done very quietly, so no one knew I'd gone.'

Chapter Thirty-Three: 'I found him barking like a dog.'

Chapter Thirty-Four: 'I thought I was going insane. The only way I got through it was by taking up meditation.'

Chapter Thirty-Five: 'My job was to stop the musicians having fun.'

Chapter Thirty-Six: 'You've got the curse of The Fall!'

Acknowledgments

Photography Credits and Permissions Acknowledgments

Copyright.

Notes:

Previous ed.: 2008.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-84767-640-5

OCLC:

1255224166