FREE ROCK STARS STOLE MY LIFE!: A BIG BAD LOVE AFFAIR WITH MUSIC PDF Mark Ellen | 352 pages | 26 Mar 2015 | Hodder & Stoughton General Division | 9781444775518 | English | London, United Kingdom Rock Stars Stole my Life A Big Bad Love Affair with Music - video dailymotion Just arrived NYC and wanked myself laughing. Literally tears. Irritated looks all around. What a great writer you are. It's a classic. You absolutely got the whole shite early 70s thing down precisely as it was. Names, smells, sounds, looks, the food, drink, girls, boys! Well done. In a sodden tent at a '70s festival, the teenage Mark Ellen had a dream. He dreamt that music was a rich meadow of possibility, a liberating leap to a sparkling future, an industry of human happiness - and he wanted to be part of it. Thus began his year love affair with rock and roll. This funny and touching personal memoir maps out his eventful journey in rock and roll. It tells stories and settles scores. It charts the peaks and disappointments. It flags up surprising heroes and barbecues the dull and self-deluded. It puts a chaotic world to rights and pours petrol on the embers of a glorious industry now in spiraling decline. Thumbs Aloft! Ellen has been at the coalface of rock hackdom for 40 years, yet unlike many of his contemporaries, he has always viewed his relationship with the music industry - and the preposterous entertainers it throws up - as a ridiculous pleasure rather than a burden. Ellen is not only one of the nicest men in the industry, he's also one of its funniest writers, and this books picks away at the hand that has fed him for all these years with such humour, and such delicacy, that it becomes impossible to put down. Here is a man who presented Live Aid, who presided over the most popular music magazine in the world, and who unwittingly became one of the last people to interview Michael Jackson in print. And it is never less than hilarious. This book will make you laugh, make you cry with joy, and send you scuttling over to what is left of your record collection to look for an Elvis Costello album you probably have not played since it was released. Mark Ellen wanted to be in the music business. When Rock Stars Stole My Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music a rock star doesn't work out, he tries his hand at being a member of the music press. And Rock Stars Stole My Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music follows many years of success at magazines such as NME and If like me you grew up reading Smash Hits, moved on to the NME and then read the sadly departed Word Magazine, or if you were just a fan of music in the 80s and 90s Mark Ellen Please sign in to write a review. If you have changed your email address then contact us and we will update your details. Would you like to proceed to the App store to download the Waterstones App? We have recently updated our Privacy Policy. The site uses cookies to offer you a better experience. By continuing to browse the site you accept our Cookie Policy, you can change your settings at any time. Rock Stars Stole my Life! In stock Usually dispatched within 24 hours. Quantity Add to basket. This item has been added to your basket View basket Checkout. Your local Waterstones may have stock of this item. View other formats and editions. For more exclusive pictures visit www. There's a misty-eyed reverence for the past in Ellen's entertaining memoir of five decades surrounded by music. It is a tribute to Ellen's resilience that not even this sensory assault can erode the powers of humour and observation that make his book so enjoyable. As the image of today's stars becomes ever more tightly controlled, Ellen's experiences make him one of the few who can pull back the curtain to expose the smoke and mirrors of this most glamorous, exciting and tawdry of industries. It's terrific! Exposes the smoke and mirrors of this most glamorous and tawdry of industries. Knowingly ridiculous and very funny. A series of golden ages witnessed first-hand. Rock Stars Stole My Life! Is an upbeat and immensely readable account of a joyous addiction. Having such a funny, charming guide doesn't hurt either. Ellen relates a blessed life Ellen sails through pop history Rock Stars Stole My Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music an infectious joie de vivre that sends laughter tumbling from every page. Added to basket. Tall Tales and Wee Stories. Billy Connolly. A Life on Our Planet. Sir David Attenborough. Limitless: The Autobiography. Tim Peake. Gotta Get Theroux This. Louis Theroux. Year of the Monkey. Patti Smith. Captain Tom Moore. Ramble Book. Adam Buxton. To the End of the World. Rupert Everett. How to Fail. Elizabeth Day. Gary Numan. This Is Me. Mrs Hinch. Just Ignore Him. Alan Davies. Life's Rock Stars Stole My Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music You Make It. 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It flags up surprising heroes and barbecues the dull and self-deluded. It puts a chaotic world to rights and pours petrol on the embers of a glorious industry now in spiralling decline. Get A Copy. Kindle Editionpages. More Details Original Title. Penderyn Music Book Prize Nominee Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Mar 17, Emma rated it it was ok. I felt a bit disappointed with this one. I really was expecting to enjoy it, but I ended up skim reading it. I read another review, where the reviewer said she felt she was a bit young to appreciate it, and I feel similarly. Also, we dont really get to know Mark at all. View Rock Stars Stole My Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music comment. This is an engaging and fascinating memoir by Mark Ellen — music journalist, critic, radio and television presenter — whose life has been completely wrapped up in his love of music. He begins with his sisters love of The Beatles, and his early musical interest in bands such as The Kinks and Bob Dylan in the Sixties. His childhood love of music was misunderstood by his parents, who disapproved of Top of the Pops and these new long haired bands taking over the airwaves. However, as so Rock Stars Stole My Life!: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music happen This is an engaging and fascinating memoir by Mark Ellen — music journalist, critic, radio and television presenter — whose life has been completely wrapped up in his love of music. However, as so often happens, parental disapproval only made music even more attractive to Ellen. However, watching the music press of the Seventies many almost as famous as the bands they were writing about swanning into the backstage areas at music festivals and concerts, gave him the idea of possibly trying to work for a music magazine. What follows is really a career in music. His section on working at the NME is especially interesting, with office politics and factions developing amongst the journalists, which gave him his first disenchantment of what working in the music business would be, considering his rather youthful and naive views at the time. He was at Live Aid, many different award shows and has seen the best and worst of the music business.