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100 1 $aSkinner, Mike,$d1978-
245 14 $aThe story of The Streets /$cby Mike Skinner ; with Ben Thompson.
264 1 $aLondon :$bBantam Press,$c2012.
300 $a301 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ;$c24 cm
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520 8 $aMike Skinner - the creative force behind The Streets - has won worldwide acclaim for fusing home-grown hip-hop with the proud British tradition of observational songwriting. In this book Mike shares personal details of his upbringing in Birmingham, as well as discussing life in the showbiz fast lane.
505 0 $aI.The Inciting Event: Original Pirate Material -- 1.I'm not a very good rapper -- 2.There was something about taking stuff apart and putting it back together ... -- 3.I always wanted to do music -- it was either that or death -- 4.I don't think they thought the music industry had any kind of commercial future -- 5.Now there was an imbalance of achievement -- II.Climax: A Grand Don't Come For Free -- 6.Essentially, they were hipsters -- 7.I took their favourable reaction as evidence of my own powerlessness -- 8.Effectively, what we did was slap my personality on top of his database -- 9.For me it was the musical equivalent of the moment in Being John Malkovich when John Malkovich goes through the portal into his own brain -- 10.I worked at Granada Services, Frankley -- III.Crisis: The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living -- 11.We bought Mum and Dad a place in Barnet
505 0 $a12.I know plenty of people who smoked brown and were fine -- I suppose I'm one of them -- 13.I was fully living the dream -- 14.The final amount as far as Warner's were concerned was probably nearer a million -- 15.With anti-heroes -- film noir-type people -- you think of them as being bad guys, but they're always better than their surroundings -- IV.Progressive Complications: Everything Is Borrowed -- 16.I was never anything more than an outpatient -- 17.Tim ideally wants to be managing Bruce Springsteen or The Beatles -- 18.Product placement is just an extension of a visual metaphor -- 19.The donk of diminishing returns -- 20.Chris and Gwyneth were the exception that proved the rule -- V.Resolution: Computers And Blues -- 21.If they stick with me till album number five, they know they can get a Greater Hits out of it -- 22.Then The Streets was going to come to an end -- 23.I hope I'm not going to sound like Alanis Morissette if I describe this as ironic
505 0 $a24.You don't really have to stay in touch, because they're going to be there anyway -- 25.The cliff-hanger at the end of the first one was that Trevor Eve dies, although it turns out he's not really dead.
600 10 $aSkinner, Mike,$d1978-
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