Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star

by Tracey Thorn Narrated by Tracey Thorn

Overview

I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records.

Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half of the group Everything But the Girl. In that time, we released nine albums and sold nine million records. We went on countless tours, had hit singles and flop singles, were reviewed and interviewed to within an inch of our lives. I've been in the charts, out of them, back in. I've seen myself described as an indie darling, a middle-of-the-road nobody and a disco diva. I haven't always fitted in, you see, and that's made me face up to the realities of a pop career - there are thrills and wonders to be experienced, yes, but also moments of doubt, mistakes, violent lifestyle changes from luxury to squalor and back again, sometimes within minutes.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

The Alan Bennett of pop memoirists. I loved her book so much I wanted to form a band, too. Preferably with Thorn—Caitlin Moran, bestselling author of How to be a Woman

As distinctive and lovely as its author's singing voice, Bedsit Disco Queen isn't just a wry and wise memoir of a unique career: it acts as a kind of eulogy for a forgotten era of British pop—Alexis Petridis

As a witty and wise chronicle of a life spent dipping in and out of the limelight, this is second to none—Fiona Sturges, Independent on Sunday

Beautifully written, dryly funny and searingly honest—Sunday Times

Product Details

BN ID:	2940159819314
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	01/16/2014
Edition description:	Unabridged

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