Contents

Introduction

1 I was born in a welfare state

2 Halleluja, Rosie Lea

3 To help classify my disease

4 All your smart modern painters

5 Here come the people in grey

6 The contenders

7 Mixed up with a floosie

8 Girl

9 Leaving insecurity behind me

10 Top of the Pops

11 Me and my baby’s gonna get on a train that’s gonna take us away

12 Complicated life

13 Cut out the struggle and strife

14 They’ll move me up to Muswell Hill tomorrow

15 Too much on my mind

16 Powerman

17 The age of insanity

18 The Money-go-round

19 A promised land

20 If life’s for livin’ then what’s livin’ for?