{"product_id":"9781785123122-pop-scars-a-memoir-on-fame-addiction-and-the-dark-side-of-90s-pop","title":"Pop Scars","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA memoir on fame, addiction and the dark side of 90s pop - 'Unflinching and unmissable', HEAT Magazine\u003cbr\u003eThe shocking, tell-all memoir from '90s popstar and heart-throb formerly known as Kavana.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE SHOCKING AND HONEST MEMOIR FROM 90'S POPSTAR AND HEARTTHROB FORMERLY KNOWN AS KAVANA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I devoured [\u003ci\u003ePop Scars\u003c\/i\u003e] in two sittings. Anthony writes about the feelings so well: the sadness that dogged him as a child, the desire to be anyone other than himself and his inability to cope with the shame and the loss when his career runs out of road.'' Marian Keyes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eI couldn't put this book down. fascinating, funny, jaw-dropping, intense, inspiring and so well written. I urge you to read it.' Donna Ashworth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Raw, funny and completely fearless. told with the singer's down-to-earth wit, warmth and brutal honesty, this is a wild, moving and ultimately redemptive ride through the highs and horrors of fame, addiction, grief and survival. Unflinching - and unmissable. *****' Lisa Howells, \u003ci\u003eHeat\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Darkly comic', \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e'An incredibly raw, deeply emotional, honest memoir from start to finish', Christine Lampard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An inspiring story from such an inspiring person,' Christie Watson\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBorn in Manchester in 1977, Anthony Kavanagh's rise to fame was stratospheric, scoring a record deal at the age of just eighteen and winning the much-coveted \u003ci\u003eSmash Hits\u003c\/i\u003e Male Artist of the Year Award in 1997, all the while achieving top ten hits, appearing on countless magazine covers, performing on \u003ci\u003eTop of the\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePops\u003c\/i\u003e and gigging alongside the Spice Girls. The stuff that dreams are made of.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Anthony - or Kavana as he came to be known - was also trying to keep his sexuality a secret while navigating his way through an industry where image was everything; where his success depended on him having to be exactly who he wasn't.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat followed was a dark and dangerous spiral into addiction, an illness that would insidiously follow and baffle him for years to come. \u003ci\u003ePop Scars \u003c\/i\u003eis a story told with fearless honesty that's at times as funny as it is heartbreaking, chronicling the highs, the lows, the self-destruction and the chaos of hitting rock bottom and then finding out that rock bottom has a basement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThirty years on, Anthony is ready to tell his jaw-dropping story. \u003ci\u003ePop Scars\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about teenage stardom, fame, addiction, grief and - ultimately - survival and sobriety.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55602231279990,"sku":"9781785123122","price":18.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36340802.jpg?v=1759409170","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781785123122-pop-scars-a-memoir-on-fame-addiction-and-the-dark-side-of-90s-pop","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}