Not JUST About The Fall

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Not JUST About The Fall : 50 adventures in a post-punk paradise by Paddy Shennan </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sunday Times best-selling author (well ghostwriter) Paddy Shennan pays tribute to the forgotten heroes of the music industry - the fans! </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>No one is JUST a music fan.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Being a music fan is more than important it's vital.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Music fans are worth their weight in gold. They are needed by every musician who has ever written a song entered a recording studio and taken to the stage.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Just as football is nothing without fans so is music - and so are musicians. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And it's during your teenage years when music often matters more than anything else in life.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Paddy recalls the musical adventures of his adolescence including classic (and not-so-classic) gigs by the likes of The Clash Buzzcocks The Jam The Fall Joy Division The Cure The Associates U2 Dexys Midnight Runners The Smiths New Order and The Birthday Party. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Read how The Fall and John Peel changed his life how Bono and The Edge bored him witless backstage how he helped pioneer the independent cassette scene of the early 1980s as one of the compilers of Sounds' Obscurist charts - launched by his good friend Paul Platypus - and as leader of one of the worst/best bedroom bands of all time The Ambitious Merchants and founder of cassette label Apple Crumble Tapes. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There are also appearances by the likes of future multi-millionaire Alan Give me my quid back! McGee music journalist Garry The Fall are shit! Bushell Preston's Blank Students Blackpool's The Membranes and - er possibly - Lloyd Cole. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>All this and the best jukebox in the world! </span></p><p></p>