Never Understood

A TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 AN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A RESIDENT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'A wonderful book' Risn Murphy 'From the opening line to the last you get it all: addiction, poverty, success, misery, redemption, all told with a brutal, raw honesty and a dry, intoxicating realism' Nicky Wire In Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain, William and Jim tell their own story for the very first time: an account of one of Britain's greatest guitar bands. A wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders and extreme shyness - and a love letter to the Scottish working-class family - Never Understood is a bona-fide classic of rock 'n' roll literature. 'Here is the story of the Reid brothers' rollercoaster life. Scream if you want to go faster: they'll almost certainly oblige' Ian Rankin 'Entertaining . . . fraught, funny and occasionally farcical' The Scotsman