Piller Eddie
Piller Eddie - Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances A Life In Mod From The Revival To Acid Jazz - Hardcover
Piller Eddie - Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances A Life In Mod From The Revival To Acid Jazz - Hardcover
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Description: This is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End of London. A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with punk funk record shops discos and clothes and then Whaaam! An unstoppable wave of like - minded kids fall headlong in love with 60s mod culture revived and reformatted for the 70s and 80s generation. The ultimate mod memoir - from Britain's best - known 'face'. Eddie Piller was one such kid. His life was changed forever. Written with humor passion and attention to detail Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances is perhaps the ultimate mod memoir taking us from meeting the Small Faces as a toddler to the 1979 Mod revival through the more purist 1980s mod scene and eventually to Acid Jazz. A born storyteller Eddie takes us evocatively into a world of scooters clothes and music. We run with the crowd to decaying seaside towns East End backstreet boozers and sweaty teenage gigs all fizzing with an uncontainable excitement and often exploding into violence. Once mod touched your soul it changed the way you looked at life unexpectedly broadening your horizons. In Eddie it awakens a can - do attitude that sees him setting up a fanzine putting on club nights hustling jobs in the music industry and eventually setting up a record label. It even takes him to Ireland at the height of the troubles and to Australia where the local mods take him on a military exercise. Visceral and always entertaining Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances is a stand - out memoir that relives the thrill of the 70s and 80s and the movement that helped make mod the most enduring and successful British youth culture of all time.
Title: Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances A Life In Mod From The Revival To Acid Jazz
Author(s): Piller Eddie
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781800960596
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 7/3/2023
Category: History: Specific Events & Topics
Description: This is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End of London. A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with punk funk record shops discos and clothes and then Whaaam! An unstoppable wave of like - minded kids fall headlong in love with 60s mod culture revived and reformatted for the 70s and 80s generation. The ultimate mod memoir - from Britain's best - known 'face'. Eddie Piller was one such kid. His life was changed forever. Written with humor passion and attention to detail Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances is perhaps the ultimate mod memoir taking us from meeting the Small Faces as a toddler to the 1979 Mod revival through the more purist 1980s mod scene and eventually to Acid Jazz. A born storyteller Eddie takes us evocatively into a world of scooters clothes and music. We run with the crowd to decaying seaside towns East End backstreet boozers and sweaty teenage gigs all fizzing with an uncontainable excitement and often exploding into violence. Once mod touched your soul it changed the way you looked at life unexpectedly broadening your horizons. In Eddie it awakens a can - do attitude that sees him setting up a fanzine putting on club nights hustling jobs in the music industry and eventually setting up a record label. It even takes him to Ireland at the height of the troubles and to Australia where the local mods take him on a military exercise. Visceral and always entertaining Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances is a stand - out memoir that relives the thrill of the 70s and 80s and the movement that helped make mod the most enduring and successful British youth culture of all time.
Title: Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances A Life In Mod From The Revival To Acid Jazz
Author(s): Piller Eddie
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781800960596
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 7/3/2023
Category: History: Specific Events & Topics
