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Suggs is one of pop music's most enduring and likeable figures. Written with the assured style and wit of a natural raconteur, this hugely entertaining and insightful autobiography takes you from his colourful early life on a North London council estate, through the heady early days of Punk and 2-Tone, to the eighties, where Madness became the biggest selling singles band of the decade. Along the way he tells you what it's like to grow up in sixties Soho, go globetrotting with your best mates, to make a dead pigeon fly and cause an earthquake in Finsbury Park.

(P)2013 WF Howes Ltd
Author Suggs
Narrator Suggs Suggs
Duration 7 hours and 12 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781780873893
Format Audiobook
Publisher Quercus
Genre Popular music
Availability AU, GB, IE

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