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      Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: A Life In Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz

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      The ultimate mod memoir - from Britain's best-known 'face'.

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      ''Eddie was there very early doors. His story is of the many.'' Paul Weller

      ''A total riot! Takes me right back to the 70s. A Superb book'' Mani, The Stone Roses

      ''What a wo...

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      Product ID:9781800960626
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances
      Subtitle:A Life In Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz
      Authors:Author: Eddie Piller
      Page Count:320
      Subjects:Popular music, Jazz, Popular music, Composers and songwriters, European history, History: specific events and topics, Soul & R 'n' B, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, British & Irish history, History: specific events & topics, United Kingdom, Great Britain
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      The ultimate mod memoir - from Britain's best-known 'face'.

      ***

      ''Eddie was there very early doors. His story is of the many.'' Paul Weller

      ''A total riot! Takes me right back to the 70s. A Superb book'' Mani, The Stone Roses

      ''What a wonderful book. Mod isn''t about what decade you lived in, it''s about your attitude, and this book has tons of it''
      Kenney Jones, The Small Faces

      ''A charismatic storyteller, witty and unpretentious, he is at once an engaging protagonist and an indisputable authority, giving a live-wire, visceral perspective on mod life in that short flash of time. He manages to create a welcoming space in this rather exclusive world while never losing his formidable edge as a narrator'' - The Big Issue

      ''Buy it on sight. You won''t be disappointed'' - Louder Than War

      ''Eddie''s book is really good!'' - Robert Elms

      ''Akin to being in the company of someone with plenty of entertaining tales to tell.... the comradery and spirit of like-minded souls is inspiring.'' - Paul Ritchie, Shindig! Magazine

      WITH A FOREWORD BY PAUL WELLER

      This is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End of London.

      A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with punk, funk, record shops, discos and clothes, and then... WHAAAM! An unstoppable wave of like-minded kids fall headlong in love with 60s mod culture, revived and reformatted for the 70s and 80s generation.

      Eddie Piller was one such kid. His life was changed forever. Written with humour, passion and attention to detail, CLEAN LIVING UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES is perhaps the ultimate mod memoir, taking us from meeting the Small Faces as a toddler, to the 1979 Mod revival, through the more purist 1980s mod scene and eventually to Acid Jazz.

      A born storyteller, Eddie takes us evocatively into a world of scooters, clothes, and music. We run with the crowd to decaying seaside towns, East End backstreet boozers and sweaty teenage gigs, all fizzing with an uncontainable excitement and often exploding into violence.

      Once mod touched your soul it changed the way you looked at life, unexpectedly broadening your horizons. In Eddie it awakens a can-do attitude that sees him setting up a fanzine, putting on club nights, hustling jobs in the music industry, and eventually setting up a record label. It even takes him to Ireland at the height of the troubles and to Australia where the local mods take him on a military exercise...

      Visceral and always entertaining, CLEAN LIVING UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES is a stand-out memoir that relives the thrill of the 70s and 80s, and the movement that helped make mod the most enduring and successful British youth culture of all time.


      Imprint Name:Monoray
      Publisher Name:Octopus Publishing Group
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2024-06-06

      Additional information

      Weight422 g
      Dimensions128 × 197 × 37 mm