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Post by doug61 on Jul 6, 2021 15:36:55 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 6, 2021 15:51:42 GMT
It's a great read Doug - he's done a second one too which I have yet to read I've also read Hooky's books (but not Barney's). I always suspected that Stephen Morris was likely to be the most modest and clear eyed of the group and Record Play Pause appears to confirm that. If you like Joy Division and New Order it's another essential read. From Stephen's early life in Macclesfield, through to his musical awakening, and then to becoming drummer of Warsaw, who were to change their name to Joy Division. Record Play Pause is especially good at evoking the 1970s, the early Manchester punk scene and the birth pangs of Factory Records. The book ends shortly after Joy Division singer Ian Curtis's suicide and the first tentative steps as New Order supporting A Certain Ratio in America.  |
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Post by doug61 on Jul 6, 2021 16:01:08 GMT
Yeah, I've read Hooks books and thought them very good, especially the Hacienda one.
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Post by doug61 on Jul 6, 2021 16:02:06 GMT
"Hook's Books". Perhaps he could go into the bookselling business once the bass makes him too stooped to play.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 6, 2021 16:26:22 GMT
Bookselling was meant to be for Hook's Books.
Zeo reckons he should have given up music after Joy Division and got a job with Currys or Rumbelows. He could be Area Manager by now.
Totally agree that the Hacienda one is the best.
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Post by stu77 on Jul 6, 2021 17:23:07 GMT
I have both of Morris's books and met him when the first one came out.
Sumner's book is OK too
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Post by doug61 on Sept 12, 2021 13:20:43 GMT
Now a 100 pages in and loving it. Usually find the unknown growing up part of biographies rather uninspiring and something to struggle through to get to the interesting bits, but he writes with great wit about his youth. Top read so far.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Sept 12, 2021 15:19:11 GMT
Now a 100 pages in and loving it. Usually find the unknown growing up part of biographies rather uninspiring and something to struggle through to get to the interesting bits, but he writes with great wit about his youth. Top read so far. Agree with all of that Doug I must read part two which has been out for a while now I notice the paperback edition of the first book is currently £1.50 on Amazon... www.amazon.co.uk/Record-Play-Pause-Confessions-Percussionist/dp/147212622X/ref=monarch_sidesheet |
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 14, 2021 14:21:33 GMT
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Post by Billy Idle on Dec 16, 2021 10:17:31 GMT
I 'm going to read this one and maybe the second one if like the first .
Do drummers have the best insights ?
Probably often the most ego free ? Except Ginger and Keith perhaps ?
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Post by doug61 on Dec 16, 2021 14:36:51 GMT
I 'm going to read this one and maybe the second one if like the first . Do drummers have the best insights ? Probably often the most ego free ? Except Ginger and Keith perhaps ? Moon? more mental than egotistical, bless him. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2022 9:51:24 GMT
Bookselling was meant to be for Hook's Books. Zeo reckons he should have given up music after Joy Division and got a job with Currys or Rumbelows. He could be Area Manager by now. Totally agree that the Hacienda one is the best. I reckon he comes across as a right mug in that book. Getting diddled right, left and centre by.....well just about everyone really. Tony Wilson, Rob Gretton, Noonan , Barney Sumner..even the Cleaner was running off with the stock!🤣 |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2022 8:56:05 GMT
Got both of Stephen Morris' books for 6 quid yesterday but they'll have to wait as I have another couple on the go.
Read the other members(and Debbie Curtis')memoirs about Joy Division so I reckon I'm pretty cognisant on their history.
Mastermind beckons.😄
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Apr 17, 2022 10:42:28 GMT
Morris is very likeable and has a good story to tell
Look forward to your reaction
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2022 6:38:31 GMT
I read the first Morris book and very good it was too. It seems that he was less of a geek than everyone thought he was although to be fair he does admit he was and is a bit of an anorak.
It's also admirable that he deviates from the familar Joy Division story, which if you've read all the band members book, would probably bore you to tears.
Personally, I find the early years of people who went onto be in seminal bands more interesting than the actual band itself as the Joy Division story has been exhausted I reckon.
Interesting too that despite the legend none of Joy Division were from Manchester as such as two were from Salford and the other two were from Macc....
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