Scott Rowley Stay Alive: The Life and Death of Stuart Adamson (Hardback)

Stay Alive: The Life and Death of Stuart AdamsonScott RowleyLabel: New ModernDescription: A TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER“Perceptive analysis (and) also a fundamentally human story... this superb book rues Adamson's absence while celebrating his music’s still audibly beating heart. 5/5 MOJOThe official biography of former Big Country frontman chronicling his career highs and tragic death.This is the story of Stuart Adamson co-founder of not one but two seminal Scottish post-punk groups The Skids and Big Country. But this is a book that is about much more than music. Stay Alive is about alcoholism abuse family fame addiction depression and working-class pride. And along the way there are stories of drug busts debauchery flag burning fist-fights prison escapes and riots with a revolving cast of characters from The Clash to the Rolling Stones. For the first time both of Stuart Adamson’s wives children and bandmates tell their side of the story: unflinching funny and brutally honest.