Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. : A Memoir (Hardcover)

from missizicks

What an incredible woman. This was more than I was expecting it to be. I thought it would be a whip through the punk years - fun, feisty and inconsequential. Instead, it's a beautifully written and honest account of how hard it is for women to be accepted as creative, to be allowed into the boys'...

from LARA335

Searingly honest autobiography. Viv seems to have total recall, and writes of her experiences as though they have just happened. So through the book her voice changes from a determined-to-shock & irritate 20-something, to a more reflective middle-aged woman desiring love and determined to pursue ...

from lisapeet

Oh, I loved this. The first part is more dishy rock memoir, with the Slits and Sid Vicious and Mick Jones and all, and that was fun-that was my teenage/young adult music, and it's always interesting to read about what the scene was like in the years before I was paying attention. But then the sec...

from timjones

Here's what I tweeted when I finished the book: "Finished superb memoir #clothesmusicboys by @viv_albertine last night. Wonderful book - entertaining, moving, sad, amusing, profound" And I don't need to say a lot more - it was really was that good. Viv Albertine was the guitarist of iconic 1970s ...

from lisapeet

Oh, I loved this. The first part is more dishy rock memoir, with the Slits and Sid Vicious and Mick Jones and all, and that was fun-that was my teenage/young adult music, and it's always interesting to read about what the scene was like in the years before I was paying attention. But then the sec...