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Peter Hook - The Hacienda (How Not To Run A Club) (2nd Hand Paperback)
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Synopsis
Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs.
As co-owner of Manchester's Hacienda club, Hook propelled the rise of acid house in the late 1980's, then suffered through its violent fall in the 1990's as gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything he and his friends had created.
This is his memory of that era and 'it's far sadder, funnier, scarier and stranger' than anyone has imagined.
As young and naïve musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid £20 per week.
Peter Hook looked back at that exciting and hilarious time to write Hacienda. All the main characters appear - Tony Wilson, Barney, Shaun Ryder - and Hook tells it like it was - a rollercoaster of success, money, debt, confusion and true faith.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Paperback
- Condition : Good
- Category : Non-Fiction - Autobiography & Biography
- Published : 2009 (This Edition 2010 - Pocket Books)
- ISBN : 9781847391773
- SKU : B003256
- PPC : SP350gm
- RRP : £7.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'There are many sharply drawn vignettes in Hook's entertaining memoir . . . Hook is revealed as a born anecdotalist . . . engaging and hilarious' - Sunday Times.
'Saturated with gleeful hedonism, Hook's memoir includes frank admissions of eye-popping commercial ineptitude, which gives the book a restless energy' - Financial Times.
"Told in Hook’s uproarious and uncompromising voice, The Hacienda is a funny, horrifying, and outlandish story of success, idealism, naïveté, and greed - of an incredible time and place that would change the face and sound of modern music." - Underground England.
The Author
Peter Hook was born in 1956 in Salford, England. A founding member of Joy Division and New Order, he is an international DJ and tours Joy Division's music with his new band, the Light. He lives in Cheshire.