Contents
Chapter 1: “Oh, fuck, it’s Steve Harley”
Timeline One: May 1948–April 1976
Chapter 2: “Normal band, normal night, few people watching, clap-clap, very good”
Chapter 3: “Is that a bass guitar?”
Chapter 4: “He was just a kid with ‘Hate’ on his coat”
Chapter 6: “I can’t actually think of anything less ‘us’ than a wet-towel fight”
Chapter 7: “The twats were flicking the V’s up at us”
Chapter 8: “Apart from the odd pint pot in the gob it was a good gig”
Chapter 9: “Even the shit ones were pretty good”
Chapter 10: “I told him exactly where he could stick his vibrators”
Timeline Two: June 1976–December 1977
Chapter 11: “It was like The X Factor for punks”
Chapter 12: “We need to get rid of this Nazi artwork”
Chapter 13: “The biggest rain of spit I’ve ever seen in my life”
Timeline Three: January 1978–December 1978
Part Four: “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Chapter 14: “Peter’s fell off his chair again”
Chapter 15: “Fuck, Martin’s got a boot full of stolen car radios”
Chapter 16: “It sounds like a fucking helicopter”
Chapter 17: “He was looking for that spark”
Chapter 18: “Not that I’d change anything”
Chapter 19: “Stop fucking moaning, Hooky”
Chapter 20: “I just went for a piss”
Chapter 21: “You shouldn’t trust a word I say”
Chapter 23: “Turned out to be horse meat”
Chapter 24: “He’s possessed by the devil, that twat”
Chapter 25: Unknown Pleasures Track by Track
Timeline Four: January 1979–December 1979
Chapter 26: “A right mother hen”
Chapter 28: “He thought we were pricks—and how right he was”
Chapter 29: “His mum got the blood out by washing it in a bath of saltwater”
Chapter 30: “We were so excited about going to America”
Chapter 31: “I never said good-bye”
Chapter 32: Closer Track by Track
Timeline Five: January 1980–October 1981