{"product_id":"9781408710487-coal-black-mornings","title":"Coal Black Mornings","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA brilliant, beautifully written memoir from Suede founder and lead singer Brett Anderson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvening Standard \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year. \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year. \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook of the Year. \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook of the Year. \u003ci\u003eTelegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook of the Year. \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year. \u003ci\u003eHerald\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year. \u003ci\u003eMojo \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in \u003ci\u003eCoal Black Mornings\u003c\/i\u003e he traces the journey that took him from a childhood as 'a snotty, sniffy, slightly maudlin sort of boy raised on Salad Cream and milky tea and cheap meat' to becoming founder and lead singer of Suede.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnderson grew up in Hayward's Heath on the grubby fringes of the Home Counties. As a teenager he clashed with his eccentric taxi-driving father (who would parade around their council house dressed as Lawrence of Arabia, air-conducting his favourite composers) and adored his beautiful, artistic mother. He brilliantly evokes the seventies, the suffocating discomfort of a very English kind of poverty and the burning need for escape that it breeds. Anderson charts the shabby romance of creativity as he travelled the tube in search of inspiration, fuelled by Marmite and nicotine, and Suede's rise from rehearsals in bedrooms, squats and pubs. And he catalogues the intense relationships that make and break bands as well as the devastating loss of his mother.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoal Black Mornings\u003c\/i\u003e is profoundly moving, funny and intense - a book which stands alongside the most emotionally truthful of personal stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31650174238817,"sku":"9781408710487","price":10.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39948937_f7793724-88f5-4705-ae83-24ae65069aaa.jpg?v=1770845263","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781408710487-coal-black-mornings","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}