The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise

Brix Smith Start

ISBN 10: 0571325068 / ISBN 13: 9780571325061

Published by Faber & Faber, 2017

About this Item

: La autobiografía de Brix Smith Start narra su extraordinaria vida, desde su infancia en Hollywood Hills hasta su trabajo en The Fall, una de las bandas post-punk más influyentes. El libro explora sus altibajos, su reinvención constante y su trayectoria desde el lujo hasta la indigencia, culminando en su éxito en la televisión y la moda. Una historia bizarra y extrema de una chica americana en curso de colisión con el radicalismo inglés. EAN: 9780571325061 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Otros Título: The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise Autor: Brix Smith Start Editorial: Faber & Faber Idioma: en Páginas: 400 Formato: tapa blanda.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571325068
• ISBN 13: 9780571325061
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2017

The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith Start. 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 -- This Nation's Saving Grace, The Wonderful and Frightening World Of ... -- Brix 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 dilapidated 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.

Too bizarre, extreme and unlikely to exist in the pages of fiction, The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise could only exist in the pages of a memoir.

About the Author

Brix Smith Start is a songwriter and guitarist best known for her work with The Fall and The Adult Net. In recent years she has worked as a tv presenter and in fashion as the owner of a string of boutiques with her husband, Philip Start.