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Author of If The Kids Are United go to my web site -
www.manutdbooks.com
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Music, space, books, writing, football - Manchester United, moon things, stormy weather, stormy seas, lighthouses, the northern lights, northern souls, urban hymns, urban myths, folklore, myths and legends of Great Britain
‘I have found nothing, neither religion or philosophy to ease my troubled soul. But I would go mad were it not for music.
Music is heavens best gift to humanity. It alone clarifies, reconciles and consoles. But it is not a straw barley clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector, comforter and for it’s sake alone life in this world is worth living.
Who knows, perhaps in heaven there’ll be no music, so let us live on Earth while we still have life.’ Tchaikovsky
Dead people
Music is my drug, like all sorts (apart from manufactured chart crap and rap)... Nirvana, Nine Black Alps, The Duke Spirit, TV on the Radio, Arcade Fire, PJ Harvey, Edward Barton, The Jesus and Marychain, Killing Joke, Editors, Primal Scream, The White Stripes, Black Rebel Motor Cycle Club, Ladytron, Queens of the Stoneage, Stone Roses, 22-20's, Bjork, Spiritualized, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division, Loop, Aphex Twin, Spacemen 3, The Verve, Pixies, Sex Pistols, UK Subs, The Ruts, The Stranglers, The Specials, The Stooges, The Smiths, Radiohead, Nick Drake, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and tons more
Control, Donnie Darko, Kes, Dr Strangelove, 2001 Space Odyssey, The Godfather, Billy Liar, Withnail and I, Badlands, Alien, Blade Runner, The Night Of The Hunter, The Moon and the Sledgehammer
Bagpuss, The Mighty Boosh, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, 7 Up, Sopranos, Later
My Childhood by Maxim Gorky, His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pulman, The Outsider by Albert Camus, 100 Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Stalingrad by Antony Beevor, Saturday Night Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe, Love On The Dole by Walter Greenwood, Fame Is The Spur by Howard Spring, Joe Gould's Secret by Joseph Mitchell, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence many more....
John Peel, John Lydon, Kurt Cobain, Eric Cantona, Oliver Postgate