09 Adelle Stripe on 'Nico, Songs They Never Play On The Radio'

Writer and White Rabbit author Adelle Stripe joins Jude to chat about the 1999 book by James Young called Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio. As well as delving into the grimy Manchester life of singer Nico and her manager Alan Wise that the book portrays they also cover, amongst many things, the intrigue of Adam Ant, why reading about failure is more fun than reading about success, misogyny and how to write about drug use without glamorising it. Books mentioned in the podcast: Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure by Adelle Stripe The Boy Looked at Johnny by Julie Birchill and Tony Parsons England’s Dreaming by Jon Savage You are Beautiful and You are Alone by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike Coal Black Mornings by Brett Anderson Hellfire: the Jerry Lee Lewis Story by Nick Tosches Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Star by Anthony Joseph You can buy Jude's book The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives here: Finally White Rabbit's Spotify Playlist of 'booksongs' - songs inspired by books loved by our guests - is here: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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09 Adelle Stripe on 'Nico, Songs They Never Play On The Radio' is an episode from Songbook by Orion Publishing Ltd..

This episode is 43:41 long.

This episode was published on Sep 15, 2022.

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