{"product_id":"9781529958737-bless-me-father","title":"Bless Me Father","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA life story\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA searingly honest memoir from Dexys’ iconic frontman, one of the great mavericks and creative geniuses of British music. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt home, the prayerful eight-year-old altar boy was planning to attend college to train to be a priest. Elsewhere, he was thieving, lying, swearing, fighting and rarely out of trouble.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this astonishing memoir, Kevin takes us from the juvenile courts of his troubled teenage years to the early days of the New Romantic scene in the late ’70s. An unwavering passion for music and highly tuned sense of fashion and style ignited an unstoppable drive within him, compelling him down a path that led to his huge chart successes with Dexys Midnight Runners in the early 1980s. However, despite being celebrated as a creative genius, inner turmoil was never far away, and a terrifying series of self-sabotaging events were to follow – including a serious cocaine addiction – leaving him in the wilderness in the 1990s, bankrupt, living in a bedsit, on the dole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlways resilient in the face of adversity, after a massive upheaval Kevin found his way back. He charts his return journey, from shocking audiences with his pioneering embrace of gender fluidity with \u003ci\u003eMy Beauty,\u003c\/i\u003e right through to Dexys’ triumphant appearance at Glastonbury in 2024.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVividly detailed, and with a truly rare degree of self-insight, this is Kevin's own, deeply personal account of an extraordinary life, raw and unvarnished. A remarkable memoir, as compelling and original as you would expect from one of the pioneering icons of music history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56409887768950,"sku":"9781529958737","price":10.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40016766.jpg?v=1771466962","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529958737-bless-me-father","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}