Bit Of A Blur, Alex James
Bit Of A Blur, Alex James
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Bit Of A Blur
The Autobiography

Author: Alex James

Narrator: Alex James

Abridged: 3 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/07/2007

Synopsis

For Alex James, music had always been a door to a more exciting life: a way to travel, meet new people and, hopefully, pick up girls. But as bass player of Blur - one of the most successful British bands of all time - his journey was more exciting and extreme than he could ever have predicted. Success catapulted him from a slug-infested squat in Camberwell to a world of private jets and world-class restaurants. As 'the second drunkest member of the world's drunkest band' life was always chaotic, but Alex James retained a boundless enthusiasm and curiosity at odds with his hedonistic lifestyle. From nights in the Groucho with Damien Hirst, to dancing to Sister Sledge with Bjork, to being bitten on the nose by the lead singer of Iron Maiden, he offers a fascinating and hilarious insight into the world of celebrity. At its heart, however, A BIT OF A BLUR is the picaresque tale of one man's search to find meaning and happiness in an increasingly surreal world. Pleasingly unrepentant but nonetheless a reformed man, Alex James is the perfect chronicler of his generation - witty, frank and brimming with joie de vivre. A BIT OF A BLUR is as charming, funny and deliciously disreputable as its author.

About Alex James

Alex James was the bass guitarist in the nineties band Blur, a life he chronicled with great success in his first book, Bit of a Blur. He now lives on a farm in the Cotswolds with his wife and five children, makes cheese, writes for both the Sun and the Spectator and has his own show on Classic FM. In September 2011 he hosted the ‘Harvest’ festival at his farm, combining the best in British music and food.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michelle on March 23, 2023

I wanted to love this as I went to the same school as one of the band members so with the connection and loving the band, I thought I'd really enjoy it, but I couldn't connect with it at all unfortunately. I'm not here to rate anyone's life so while I didn't get much out of this reading experience, i......more

Goodreads review by Santiago on November 19, 2020

Live to tell (el bajista como testigo) Ni siquiera me gusta tanto Blur. Una amiga me regaló este libro y lo tuve como 10 años en la biblioteca postergando su lectura una y otra vez, hasta que hace unas semanas quise leer algo livianito y lo saqué de la estantería. Mientras lo leía pensaba que, salvo h......more

Goodreads review by Dane on February 02, 2020

This book is essentially the non-fiction memoir of Alex James, the bassist from Blur, and so as such it takes us behind the scenes of the Britpop revolution and shows just what it was like to be a part of one of the biggest bands of the turn of the century. For someone born right at the end of the 8......more

Goodreads review by Laurette on August 07, 2021

Maybe I shouldn’t have read this one because I really don’t like Alex James. Don’t get me wrong, the book is entertaining to read and his writing is even funny sometimes, but some things about it bother me simply because it’s Alex’s personality bleeding through. There were some parts that were absol......more

Goodreads review by Alice on April 15, 2024

Definitionen av ”He lives in a house, a very big house in the country”......more

Quotes

Alex James is a witty, engaging guide to the mad goings-on behind the scenes of Britpop. Blur's bassist famously estimates that he blew around £1m on champagne and cocaine during the Nineties. Here's how. INDEPENDENT

Bright, passionate . . . James writes with wit and flair TIME OUT

*'The definitive guide to Britpop . . . this effervescent memoir emerges as the most fascinating, as well as hilarious, document to date of those times OBSERVER

Guaranteed to bring a tear to your eye - in a good way ELLE

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