Renegade

"This might be the funniest music book ever written" - Sean O'Hagan, Observer Music Monthly

Still going after thirty years, The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands, their music - odd, spare, cranky, and repetitious - an acknowledged influence on The Smiths, The Happy Mondays, Nirvana, and Franz Ferdinand. And Mark E. Smith is The Fall. Forty-seven members have come and gone over the years, yet he remains its charismatic leader, a professional outsider and all-round enemy of compromise, a true enigma.

There have been a number of biographies of the legendary Smith, but this is the first time he has opened up in a full autobiography. For the first time, we get to hear his full, candid take on the ups and downs of a band as notorious for its in-house fighting as for its great music; and on a life that has endured prison in America, drugs, bankruptcy, divorce, and the often bleak results of a legendary thirst.