Exit Stage Left
Book description
**A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN & TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**
**INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH**
**GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY**
**FINANCIAL TIMES 'BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2022' PICK**
'Incredibly moving.' - Guardian
'Entertaining.' - Telegraph
'Most books about pop stars focus on the way we turn average human beings…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Exit Stage Left as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As a music lover, especially one whose favorite bands are now getting toward retirement age, I love seeing how the ones who had some measure of success, however fleeting, have lived out the rest of their non-spotlight lives.
The book doesn't wallow in musicians and bands who are now destitute or living bizarre lives, but suggests that there is life after pop stardom, in many forms. I did wish it had a little more overall insight and connected more dots, but those seem like minor quibbles.
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