Viv Albertine. (2014). Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys: A Memoir. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Viv Albertine. 2014. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys: A Memoir. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys: A Memoir. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014.

Viv Albertine. Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys: A Memoir. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2014.

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   • bioText: Songwriter and musician Viv Albertine was the guitarist in the hugely influential female punk band The Slits. A confidante of the Sex Pistols and the Clash, Viv was a key player in British punk culture. Alongside The Slits, she collaborated with numerous musicians, including Adrian Sherwood, before marking out a career in television and film production. After a hiatus of twenty-five years, Viv's first solo album, The Vermillion Border, was released in 2012 to great critical acclaim.
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A feminist musician icon, Viv Albertine reveals the rocking, uncompromising story of her life on the front lines at the birth of the British punk movement and beyond in this exciting, humorous, and inspiring memoir.
Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
Viv Albertine is a pioneer. As lead guitarist and songwriter for the seminal band The Slits, she influenced a future generation of artists including Kurt Cobain and Carrie Brownstein. She formed a band with Sid Vicious and was there the night he met Nancy Spungeon. She tempted Johnny Thunders...toured America with the Clash...dated Mick Jones...and inspired the classic Clash anthem "Train in Vain." But Albertine was no mere muse. In Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys., Albertine delivers a unique and unfiltered look at a traditionally male-dominated scene.
Her story is so much more than a music memoir. Albertine's narrative is nothing less than a fierce correspondence from a life on the fringes of culture. The author recalls rebelling from conformity and patriarchal society ever since her days as an adolescent girl in the same London suburb of Muswell Hill where the Kinks formed. With brash honesty—and an unforgiving memory—Albertine writes of immersing herself into punk culture among the likes of the Sex Pistols and the Buzzcocks. Of her devastation when the Slits broke up and her reinvention as a director and screenwriter. Or abortion, marriage, motherhood, and surviving cancer. Navigating infidelity and negotiating divorce. And launching her comeback as a solo artist with her debut album, The Vermilion Border.
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. is a raw chronicle of music, fashion, love, sex, feminism, and more that connects the early days of punk to the Riot Grrl movement and beyond. But even more profoundly, Viv Albertine's remarkable memoir is the story of an empowered woman staying true to herself and making it on her own in the modern world.

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   • source: Dwight Garner, The New York Times
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     "Ms. Albertine's book is wiry and cogent and fearless.... Her book has an honest, lo-fi grace. If it were better written, it would be worse."

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   • source: MTV.com
   • content: "Forget Katniss And Tris - Viv Albertine Is Your New Hero."
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   • source: Rough Trade
   • content: "A memoir full of raw and uncompromising anecdote and opinion, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys is an unflinching account of a life lived on the frontiers of experience, by a true pioneer."
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   • source: Amazon.com, Amazon Book of the Month Featured Debut
   • content: "If you love this music, then this book is fascinating and essential. If not, it's fascinating and inspiring. It's occasionally coarse, and often terribly funny and fun."
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   • source: The Guardian (UK)
   • content: "This honest, defiant book from the Slits' guitarist is a lesson in how to look back from middle age...no self-aggrandisement, but occasionally a quiet, defiant pride in her achievements. The list of which, I am delighted to note from her latest music, continues to grow."
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   • source: Greil Marcus for barnesandnoble.com
   • content: "[A] blazing, rueful memoir."
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   • source: The Los Angeles Times
   • content: "Crammed with wicked observations and keen memories -- especially what and whom she was wearing throughout her fashion-obsessed life -- Albertine's book is sharp and quick-witted. She knows her way around a sentence and exudes confidence. Like singer Marianne Faithfull's revelatory autobiography Faithfull which detailed her life as a '60s 'It' girl, Rolling Stones muse, junkie and chanteuse, Albertine throughout the decades questions assumptions of femininity, propriety and creativity."
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     September 1, 2014
     An undercurrent of low self-esteem runs through this episodic, mannered memoir by former punk rocker Albertine, guitarist for the Slits. In spare, frank prose, she recounts her early infatuation with Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten, her success as a guitarist in an unheard-of all-girl band in the late 1970s, and her later troubles, when her marriage failed and her career stalled out. Growing up in the 1960s in Muswell Hill, North London, as the child of an unstable marriage, Albertine found a revolutionary, exciting “new world” in music by John Lennon and the Kinks. Her Corsican-born father criticized her when she announced that she wanted to be a pop singer: “You’re not chic enough.” So she settled for being a groupie: cadging fab clothes from Kensington Market (“glam rock”), attending Hornsey Art School, and dating Mick Jones of the Clash, who helped her buy her first guitar. Dressed in tattered punk wear from the Sex shop at the end of King’s Road, she played with Sid in her first band, Flowers of Romance. Once Sid drifted to the Sex Pistols, Albertine joined the Slits, fronted by the classically trained 15-year-old, Ari Up. Albertine tracks the halcyon days of the band, touring and recording, which lasted until Tessa Pollitt’s overdose in 1982. In “Side Two” of her memoir, Albertine writes about years of uneven romance, trying to get pregnant, and trying to find fulfillment as a Hastings “housewife.” At the end of this bold, empowering work, Albertine returns to playing guitar to give her life direction again.

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     November 15, 2014
     Viv Albertine was a guitarist for the seminal female English punk band the Slits. Her memoir addresses three of her greatest obsessionsclothes, music, and boysin what she calls a scrapbook of memories. Born in Sydney to a French father and Swiss mother, Albertine immigrated with her family, including her younger sister, to England and was raised in Muswell Hill, a suburb of north London (the same area, she proudly points out, that the Kinks hailed from). Her father was abusive; his behavior left her with lifelong emotional scars. She recalls hearing the Beatles for the first time and regards the music that she grew up with as being revolutionary. Numerous chapters discuss her troublesome teenage years of hard partying, art school, run-ins with skinheads, her marriage and divorce, and her successful struggle with cervical cancer. This pioneer and pivotal punk rocker discusses her relationships/friendships with fellow musicians Joe Strummer, Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious, and Johnny Thunders in this fascinating insider's look at the punk scene from a female perspective.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
Viv Albertine is a pioneer. As lead guitarist and songwriter for the seminal band The Slits, she influenced a future generation of artists including Kurt Cobain and Carrie Brownstein. She formed a band with Sid Vicious and was there the night he met Nancy Spungeon. She tempted Johnny Thunders...toured America with the Clash...dated Mick Jones...and inspired the classic Clash anthem "Train in Vain." But Albertine was no mere muse. In Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys., Albertine delivers a unique and unfiltered look at a traditionally male-dominated scene.
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