{"product_id":"9781474625531-paper-cuts","title":"Paper Cuts","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures. The story of Britpop and its aftermath, told through the eyes of music editor Ted Kessler. \u003cp\u003e'A great writer' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Weller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A music journalist of integrity' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBilly Childish\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003eThere's only one Ted Kessler!' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiam Gallagher\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePAPER 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. \u003ci\u003ePaper Cuts\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe travel in time alongside musical heroes \u003cb\u003ePaul Weller, Kevin Rowland\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eMark E Smith\u003c\/b\u003e, and to Cuba twice, first with \u003cb\u003eShaun Ryder and Bez\u003c\/b\u003e, then with \u003cb\u003eManic Street Preachers\u003c\/b\u003e. We spend long, mad nights out with \u003cb\u003eOasis\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Strokes\u003c\/b\u003e, quality time with \u003cb\u003eJeff Buckley\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eFlorence Welch,\u003c\/b\u003e and watch \u003cb\u003eRadiohead \u003c\/b\u003edeliver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40234700636257,"sku":"9781474625531","price":17.43,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/4f598e07822c61906808e761ed689e8c.png?v=1688388865","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781474625531-paper-cuts","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}