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Brett Anderson - Brett Anderson - Coal Black Mornings
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Brett
Anderson
came
from
a
world
impossibly
distant
from
rock
star
success,
and
in
Coal
Black
Mornings
he
traces
the
journey
that
took
him
from
a
childhood
as
'a
snotty,
sniffy,
slightly
maudlin
sort
of
boy
raised
on
Salad
Cream
and
milky
tea
and
cheap
meat'
to
becoming
founder
and
lead
singer
of
Suede.
Anderson
grew
up
in
Hayward's
Heath
on
the
grubby
fringes
of
the
Home
Counties.
As
a
teenager
he
clashed
with
his
eccentric
taxi-driving
father
(who
would
parade
around
their
council
house
dressed
as
Lawrence
of
Arabia,
air-conducting
his
favourite
composers)
and
adored
his
beautiful,
artistic
mother.
He
brilliantly
evokes
the
seventies,
the
suffocating
discomfort
of
a
very
English
kind
of
poverty
and
the
burning
need
for
escape
that
it
breeds.
Anderson
charts
the
shabby
romance
of
creativity
as
he
travelled
the
tube
in
search
of
inspiration,
fuelled
by
Marmite
and
nicotine,
and
Suede's
rise
from
rehearsals
in
bedrooms,
squats
and
pubs.
And
he
catalogues
the
intense
relationships
that
make
and
break
bands
as
well
as
the
devastating
loss
of
his
mother.
Coal
Black
Mornings
is
profoundly
moving,
funny
and
intense
-
a
book
which
stands
alongside
the
most
emotionally
truthful
of
personal
stories.
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