Paper Cuts
Kessler, Ted
Sold by Joe Orlik Books, Manchester, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since November 1, 2022
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Fine
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Add to basketSold by Joe Orlik Books, Manchester, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since November 1, 2022
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketParticipant memoir of the music business in the UK with an emphasis on the music press and its demise with the advent of the internet from the 1990s to 2020s.
Hardcover with DJ pp314
Condition Fine, pageblock tight, bright and clean, appears unread. DJ unclipped.
Seller Inventory # AS34.KessCuts
'A great writer'
Paul Weller
'A music journalist of integrity'
Billy Childish
'There's only one Ted Kessler!'
Liam Gallagher
PAPER CUTS is the inside story of the slow death of the British music press. But it's also a love letter to it, the tale of how music magazines saved one man's life. Ted Kessler left home and school around his seventeenth birthday, determined 'to be someone who listened to music professionally'. That dream appeared forlorn when he was later arrested for theft behind the counter of the record shop he managed during acid house's long hot summer of love. Paper Cuts tells how Kessler found redemption through music and writing and takes us on a journey alongside the stars he interviewed and the work-place dramas he navigated as a senior staffer at NME through the boom-time '90s and on to the monthly Q in 2004, where he worked for sixteen years before it folded with him at its helm as editor in 2020.
We travel in time alongside musical heroes Paul Weller, Kevin Rowland, Mark E Smith, and to Cuba twice, first with Shaun Ryder and Bez, then with Manic Street Preachers. We spend long, mad nights out with Oasis and The Strokes, quality time with Jeff Buckley and Florence Welch, and watch Radiohead deliver cold revenge upon Kessler in public. A story about love and death, about what it's like when a music writer shacks up with a conflict of interest, and what happens when your younger brother starts appearing on the cover of the magazines you work for, this is the memoir of "a delinquent doofus" whose life was both rescued and defined by music magazines.
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