The rise, the fall, and the rise
Smith, Brix2017
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Best known for her work in The Fall at the time when they were perhaps the most powerful and influential anti-authoritarian postpunk band in the world, Brix Smith Start spent ten years in the band before a violent disintegration led to her exit and the end of her marriage with Mark E. Smith. But Brix's story is much more than rock'n'roll highs and lows in one of the most radically dysfunctional bands around. Growing up in the Hollywood Hills in the '60s in a dilapadated pink mansion her life has taken her from luxury to destitution, from the cover of the NME to waitressing in California, via the industrial wasteland of Manchester in the 1980s. What emerges is a story of constant reinvention, jubilant highs and depressive ebbs; a singular journey of a teenage American girl on a collision course with English radicalism on her way to mid-life success on TV and in fashion.
Main title:
The rise, the fall, and the rise / Brix Smith Start.
Author:
Smith, Brix, author
Imprint:
London : Faber & Faber, 2017.
Collation:
xii, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2016.
ISBN:
9780571325061 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
782.42166782.421 SMITB SMI
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2222460