Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

By Viv Albertine,

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SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR
ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR
MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR

A new edition as part of the Faber Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.

In 1975, Viv Albertine wasā€¦

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2 authors picked Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Few musicians are able to pen their own memoir, sans ghostwriter, without toppling into weary self-indulgence. Take a bow, Viv Albertine. Named after a scathing condemnation of her teenage proclivities by her despairing mother, Clothes Clothes Clothesā€¦ brilliantly chronicled the groundbreaking all-female UK punk band The Slitsā€™ guitaristā€™s brittle, self-doubting journey through music and life. Highlights? Joe Strummerā€™s unstinting attempts to pick her up whenever her boyfriend Mick Jonesā€™s back was turned, and Johnny Rottenā€™s characteristically sneering dismissal of her failed attempt to give him a blow-job: "Oh, Vivienne, youā€™re trying too hard!"

I absolutely loved this book so much that I read it three times.

I think that Viv Albertine is one of the most influential women in music. She deserves so much more credit than she has ever gotten.

Viv Albertineā€™s describes her time as lead guitarist playing with the all-female band The Slits from the UK. We follow young Viv as she rejects the repressive notions of the time of what it meant to be a female.

The Slits were an integral part of the 1970s punk scene in the UK alongside bands like The Clash and The Sex Pistols.ā€¦

From Joyce's list on female musician rock memoirs.

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