That Close

That Close

2013 • 368 pages

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Suggs is one of pop music's most enduring and likeable figures. Written with the assured style and wit of a natural raconteur, this hugely entertaining and insightful autobiography takes you from his colourful early life on a North London council estate, through the heady early days of Punk and 2-Tone, to the eighties, where Madness became the biggest selling singles band of the decade. Along the way he tells you what it's like to grow up in sixties Soho, go globetrotting with your best mates, to make a dead pigeon fly and cause an earthquake in Finsbury Park.


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I love autobiographies. Some, unfortunately, are so boring I just skim through them. Not so with this one. Suggs is a charming, witty, hugely likeable guy and these traits shine through in the book. He has no delusions of grandeur, what you see is what you get.
A must read for Madness fans.

July 26, 2014

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