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The Sunday Times top ten bestselling memoir of Tracey Thorn's 30-year pop career with Marine Girls and Everything But The Girl, and her collaborations with Paul Weller, Massive Attack and Todd Terry. 'I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band.


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Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star is an autobiography written by Tracey Thorn, first published in February 2013. [1] [2] [3] The book received widespread critical acclaim and was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller. [4] The book was featured on BBC Radio 4 's Book of the Week in March 2013. [5] Reception


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This is probably the key to why Bedsit Disco Queen is so good -- as idiosyncratic, clever and entertaining as you'd expect' Claire Black, Scotsman About the Author Tracey Thorn was singer and songwriter with Everything But the Girl from 1982-2000.


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The Sunday Times top ten bestselling memoir of Tracey Thorn's 30-year pop career with Marine Girls and Everything But The Girl, and her collaborations with Paul Weller, Massive Attack and Todd Terry. 'I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band.


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A frank and funny pop culture memoir in the vein of Caitlin Moran's How to be a Woman, this is "how to be a woman artist" This is the story of Tracey Thorn, one half of the internationally successful group Everything But the Girl, collaborator with such artists as Paul Weller, Massive Attack, and dance legend Todd Terry.


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Bedsit Disco Queen Written and read by Tracey Thorn. Tracey Thorn's memoir charts a personal and musical journey that takes us back to her teenage diaries and the thrill of punk, juggling school homework with interviews with the NME as part of all-girl group The Marine Girls and the DIY indie music scene of the late 1970s.


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This is probably the key to why Bedsit Disco Queen is so good -- as idiosyncratic, clever and entertaining as you'd expect' Claire Black, Scotsman--This text refers to the paperback edition. About the Author. Tracey Thorn was singer and songwriter with Everything But the Girl from 1982-2000. At that point she semi-retired from the music.


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Bedsit Disco Queen, by the English artist Tracey Thorn, arrives as one of these rare, shining examples of musical autobiography—or, really, autobiography in general. Thorn helped found.


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From left: Tracey Thorn, Jane Fox and Gina Hartman of the Marine Girls in 1982.. Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn - review. This is a modest and sensitive memoir from the Everything But the.


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As distinctive and lovely as its author's singing voice, Bedsit Disco Queen isn't just a wry and wise memoir of a unique career: it acts as a kind of eulogy for a forgotten era of British pop' - Alexis Petridis


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She then became a solo artist, and a writer of three bestselling books: her 2013 memoir Bedsit Disco Queen,. Another Planet by Tracey Thorn is published by Canongate (£9.99).


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