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Bedsit Disco Queen

How I Grew Up and Tried to Be a Pop Star

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Bedsit Disco Queen

By: Tracey Thorn
Narrated by: Tracey Thorn
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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. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records. Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half of the group Everything But the Girl. In that time, we released nine albums and sold nine million records. We went on countless tours, had hit singles and flop singles. I've seen myself described as an indie darling, a middle-of-the-road nobody and a disco diva. I haven't always fitted in, you see, and that's made me face up to the realities of a pop career.'

From post-punk teen-band rivalry in suburban Hertfordshire to international chart-topping success via a shared bedsit in Hull, and three decades of touring and making music, this is the funny, perceptive and candid true story of how Tracey Thorn grew up and tried to be a pop star.

©2013 Tracey Thorn (P)2014 Hachette Audio Entertainment & Celebrities Women
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Loved this story - love Everything But the Girl even more now! Beautifully read too.

Love and Music

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I got my o ld 80's vinyls out recently having bought a new turntable. amongst them was Eden, one of my faves from the 80's and I often wondered where EBGT are at these days ( I moved to Australia in 91). Then hearing Tracey on DID and finding out about the book was a real trip back in time.
The book is beautiful. The modesty and self doubt make her human just like the rest of us mere mortals and you feel like you will soon pass her in the street and shout Hey Tracey ! as if you know her. that's the mark of a great bio...

Evocative of the 80's

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I found myself laughing and nodding throughout, as I identified with much of Tracey’s story. I must go dig out my Marine Girls cassette tape.

So good to hear an author read their own memoir.

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