Tenement Kid: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream by Bobby Gillespie

[Gillespie] is a major influence on so many people; musicians and fans alike. Rolling Stone Fizzing with an infectious passion for the magic of rock music, Bobby Gillespies vivid and evocative new memoir, TENEMENT KID: From the Streets of Glasgow in the 1960s to Drummer in Jesus and Mary Chain and Frontman in Primal Scream, traces a path from a post war Glasgow tenement to the release of Screamadelica, the bands psychedelic award winning masterpiece that helped usher in the 1990s. So much than a rockstars memoir, Tenement Kid is also a book filled with the joy and wonder of a rocknroll apostle who radically reshaped the future sounds of fin de siecle British pop. Structured in four parts, Tenement Kid builds like a breakbeat crescendo from Gillespies working class Glaswegian upbringing to the Second Summer of Love that saw the '80s bleed into the '90s and a new kind of electronic soul music starting to pulse through the Great Britains consciousness. In this book, Gillespie takes us through the release of Screamadelica and the tour that followed as Primal Scream become the most innovative British band of the new decade. Published thirty years after the release of that seminal album, Tenement Kid cuts a righteous path through a decade lost to Thatcherism and saved by acid house. Its a joyful, celebratory, and beautifully written book which will remind us of better times, justas we hopethose better times might be returning.