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  • The Story of the Streets

  • By: Mike Skinner
  • Narrated by: Mike Skinner
  • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (36 ratings)

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Winner of the Best Book Award 2013 at the NME Awards

"This book is going to try and get as close as possible to the full story of what informed the noise of The Streets. Obviously that's something I should be fairly well qualified to know about, and I'm going to be as honest as the publisher's lawyers will allow."

With the 2001 release of The Streets' debut single "Has It Come to This?" the landscape of British popular music changed forever. No longer did home-grown rappers have to anxiously defer to transatlantic influences. Mike Skinner's witty, self-deprecating sagas of late-night kebab shops and skunk-fuelled Playstation sessions showed how much you could achieve simply by speaking in your own voice.

In this thoroughly modern memoir, the man the Guardian once dubbed "half Dostoevsky… half Samuel Pepys" tells a freewheeling, funny and fearlessly honest tale of Birmingham and London, ecstasy and epilepsy, Twitter-fear and Spectrum joysticks, spread betting and growing up. He writes of his musical inspirations, role models and rivals, the craft of song writing, and reflects on the successes and failures of the decade-long journey of The Streets.

©2012 Mike Skinner (P)2012 Random House Audiobooks

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"Cleverer, funnier, more illuminating and beautifully written than anything I have read in the longest time." (Decca Aitkenhead, Guardian)

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The Streets through and through

A sweet read through the early days and the changes Mike / The Streets go through cementing a place as pioneers in the industry

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Mike skinner is a true artist!

Great listen if you like the streets, amazing Insite into the mind of a genius geezer

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I would probably walk away from him after a while if I met him at at a party.

Largely uninteresting, but for the small insights into the surrounding music scenes and into middle England life at the time. Mike Skinner is unafraid to be himself and is quite honest (and eloquent to a degree), but there is just not a great deal to the story of the Streets.
Hearing it in the author’s voice & accent, whilst quite monotone, kept the recount situated and authentic.

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