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Pop Scars
- Author
- Anthony Kavanagh
- Narrator
- Anthony Kavanagh
- Publisher
- Blink Publishing
- Publish Date
- 17 July 2025
- Run Time
- 7 hours 18 minutes
- Format
- x-book®
- Genre
- Music, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Health, illness or addiction: social aspects, Addiction and therapy, Memoirs
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
What to expect
Born in Manchester in 1977, Anthony Kavanagh's rise to fame was stratospheric, scoring a record deal at the age of just eighteen and winning the much-coveted Smash Hits Male Artist of the Year Award in 1997, all the while achieving top ten hits, appearing on countless magazine covers, performing on Top of the Pops and gigging alongside the Spice Girls. The stuff that dreams are made of.
But Anthony - or Kavana as he came to be known - was also trying to keep his sexuality a secret while navigating his way through an industry where image was everything; where his success depended on him having to be exactly who he wasn't.
What followed was a dark and dangerous spiral into addiction, an illness that would insidiously follow and baffle him for years to come. Pop Scars is a story told with fearless honesty that's at times as funny as it is heartbreaking, chronicling the highs, the lows, the self-destruction and the chaos of hitting rock bottom and then finding out that rock bottom has a basement.
Thirty years on, Anthony is ready to tell his jaw-dropping story. Pop Scars is a book about teenage stardom, fame, addiction, grief and - ultimately - survival and sobriety.
User Reviews
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Funny honest and down to earth account of the other side of fame and family life . Loved mum and dad they sounded so lovely hope this guy gets a happy ending
alobo67 2025-08-07
Details
- Author
- Anthony Kavanagh
- Narrator
- Anthony Kavanagh
- Duration
- 7 hours 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 July 2025
- ISBN
- 9781785123146
- Format
- x-book®
- Publisher
- Blink Publishing
- Genre
- Music, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Health, illness or addiction: social aspects, Addiction and therapy, Memoirs
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
The shocking, tell-all memoir from '90s popstar and heart-throb formerly known as KavanaBorn in Manchester in 1977, Anthony Kavanagh's rise to fame was stratospheric, scoring a record deal at the age of just eighteen and winning the much-coveted Smash Hits Male Artist of the Year Award in 1997, all the while achieving top ten hits, appearing on countless magazine covers, performing on Top of the Pops and gigging alongside the Spice Girls. The stuff that dreams are made of. But Anthony - or Kavana as he came to be known - was also trying to keep his sexuality a secret while navigating his way through an industry where image was everything; where his success depended on him having to be exactly who he wasn't.What followed was a dark and dangerous spiral into addiction, an illness that would insidiously follow and baffle him for years to come. Pop Scars is a story told with fearless honesty that's at times as funny as it is heartbreaking, chronicling the highs, the lows, the self-destruction and the chaos of hitting rock bottom and then finding out that rock bottom has a basement.Thirty years on, Anthony is ready to tell his jaw-dropping story. Pop Scars is a book about teenage stardom, fame, addiction, grief and - ultimately - survival and sobriety.
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