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Sick On You is a startling, funny, and incredibly entertaining period memoir about never quite achieving success despite flying so close to greatness.. Directly inspiring Malcolm McLaren, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash, the Hollywood Brats imploded too soon to share in the glory. MOJO magazine’s 2015 Book of the Year, the outrageous true story of the Hollywood Brats—the greatest punk band you've never heard of—brilliantly told by founding member Andrew Matheson With only a guitar, a tatty copy of the Melody Maker, and his template for the perfect band, Andrew Matheson set out, in 1971, to make music history. Thrown into the crazy world of the 1970s London music scene, the Brats recorded one genius-but-ignored album and ultimately fell foul of the crooks who ran a music industry that just wasn't quite ready for the punk revolution. His band, the Hollywood Brats, were pre-punk prophets—uncompromising, ultrathin, wild, and untamable

The Time is Right Now Easy Reader This is in the running for my favorite book of the year. I'm a big music fan, so the story about the first punk band you've never heard of appealed to me. In between laughing about the misadventures of The Hollywood Brats, I found myself flipping over to Spotify to listen to them. As I was reading, I kept wanting to find out more and would google them but then realize, "DUH! You're reading a boo. Skater Dad said Great decision by the producers to have Matheson narrate his. If you are interested in this book, do yourself a favor and listen to the audiobook. I downloaded this from Audible and haven't laughed as hard in years. Great decision by the producers to have Matheson narrate his own book. Listening to him describe his experience with crabs, for example, was freakin hilarious and could only have been told to such effect by himself. I am only about half way thr. This was a great, fun read This was a great, fun read. If you like reading about the music industry and bands etc. then I highly recommend this book. I have never heard of The Hollywood Brats and after reading this book I now no why. This is a great read of their misadventures. It will have you laughing out loud as you read it.

He has turned his punk rock travails into an enormously likable memoir.” —Kevin Canfield, The Washington Post“True, proper Rock ‘n’ Roll. Matheson writes with the jagged verve he once sought from his band…. This is one of the great rock ’n’ roll hard-luck stories, by turns shocking and hilarious.” —Bob Stanley, author of Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!. A riotous portrait of a naive rocker with a penchant for foolishness,

. He has since been writing and recording music, producing, publishing magazine articles, and drinking pints. Andrew Matheson was a founding member of the Hollywood Brats, the band that never really was, but that did what it could from 1971 to 1975

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