Bless me father : a life story / Kevin Rowland.

Rowland, Kevin, author

London : Ebury Spotlight, 2025.

391 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm

At home, the prayerful eight-year-old altar boy was planning to attend college to train to be a priest. Elsewhere, he was thieving, lying, swearing, fighting and rarely out of trouble. In this memoir, Dexys' iconic frontman takes us from the juvenile courts of his troubled teenage years to the early days of the New Romantic scene in the late '70s. An unwavering passion for music and highly tuned sense of fashion and style ignited an unstoppable drive within him, compelling him down a path that led to his huge chart successes with Dexys Midnight Runners in the early 1980s. However, despite being celebrated as a creative genius, inner turmoil was never far away, and a terrifying series of self-sabotaging events were to follow - including a serious cocaine addiction - leaving him in the wilderness in the 1990s, bankrupt, living in a bedsit, on the dole.

9781529958720 (hbk)

782.42164092
782.42164
782.42164 ROW

English

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