Viv Albertine

"What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic." Viv Albertine has always been obsessed with the truth: the truth about family, power, and her identity as a rebel and outsider. But at what cost? In this brutally honest memoir, she relentlessly exposes human dysfunctionality:...

In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music, but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn't play an instrument, and she'd never seen a girl play electric guitar. A year later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-girl band the Slits, who fearlessly took on the male-dominated music scene and became...