Exit Stage Left: The curious afterlife of pop stars

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It was very heavily geared toward older Gen-x English men, there were hardly any female pop stars profiled and it took something which could have been interesting and flattened it out. But what’s it like to actually achieve it, and what’s it like when fame abruptly passes, and shifts, as it does, onto someone else? For a journalist, this book provided the rare opportunity to dig into the lives of musicians beyond the album release or tour that they’re promoting at the moment.

The closest the book comes to any kind of conclusion is that nobody ever entirely leaves music behind, not forever, which I'm not so sure about; Mark Hollis, say, gave the impression that even if he hadn't died far too young, he was finished, and I suspect there's a selection bias in who was up for chatting to someone writing a music book. Exit Stage Left is a funny and poignant book, drawing on Duerden’s considerable experience as a journalist and interviewer . She has a certain standard in recording and prefers to rent out a proper studio with an engineer, producer, etc.turns out likely not) And if you continue churning out the same stuff album after album, you risk boring your fans to death, and they'll still leave you.

Exit Stage Left is doing what a lot of music autobiographies do not do - which is tell the story of musicians after the spotlight has passed and fallen onto someone else and the brief illumination of fame is no more. We live in a culture obsessed by the notion of fame – the heedless pursuit of it, the almost obligatory subsequent fallout. A chapter is devoted to each musical artist and contains their personal commentary, which makes it more interesting. Anybody who has followed a pop musician's career will appreciate the alarm and horror of the protagonists as the adulation fades - but most of the musicians are wiser for it.Pete Paphides, author of Broken Greek’Exit Stage Left is a funny and poignant book, drawing on Duerden’s considerable experience as a journalist and interviewer .

Allan “Boff” Whalley from Chumbawamba, who retired from the band aged 51, puts it like this: “The bands I loved, when they split up, I always thought it was a beautiful thing. The obsession with the new obviously leaves so many on dust heaps of various shapes and sizes, and this is their story. I found this quite repetitive and dull which was a shame as I thought the subject matter was very interesting. The irony that any of the achievements of his subjects overshadows his own achievements is completely lost on him. home/bkjxxpmy/public_html/wp-content/plugins/events-calendar-pro/src/views/v2/widgets/widget-events-list/event/venue.Exit Stage Left is a funny and poignant book, drawing on Duerden's considerable experience as a journalist and interviewer . I remember opening for the Who towards the end of my time in the Ordinary Boys, the band with whom I enjoyed brief fame in the 00s. There is a sort of morbid curiosity turning the stone over and seeing where the likes of Hothouse Flowers, Terrance Trent D’arby and Moloko have crawled to. This book is unflinching in how the record industry moves on with what was then little to no emotional or substance abuse support or even less in the way of media training. I got two novels out on the same library trip as this, both of which I abandoned before they even merited a place on my Abandoned shelf, because we so clearly weren't gelling.