The bestselling heavy hitters from big names – Keith Richards, Bruce Springsteen, Bono, Elton John (full disclosure: I was the ghostwriter of the last book) – are merely the tip of the iceberg. The last decade has seen a torrent of them. It’s a fiercely honest, unsparing and very funny book, but, with the greatest of respect, the fact that a publisher approached the former frontwoman of Lush in the first place tells you a lot about the current appetite for rock and pop memoirs. ![]() Pragmatic or not, Berenyi’s book, Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me from Success, turned out to be a warmly reviewed success on publication last year, detailing not just Lush’s journey through the 90s indie scene and horrible end – their split was precipitated by the suicide of their drummer, Chris Acland – but Berenyi’s extraordinary and frequently harrowing early life: her Japanese mother left her in the care of her Hungarian father, a hard-partying womaniser who bought her vodka aged eight and, at one juncture, had Berenyi selling shower fittings on the streets of Prague for ready cash.
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