Growing up in Brookmans Park in the 70’s and 80’s, Tracey Thorn accumulated more music memories than I have, and definitely had a more ‘adventurous’ teenage experience than I did in suburban Solihull.
Scattered though out, and coming into focus at the end, are the relationships with her parents, and how you reevaluate them with hindsight and the benefit of your own experience.
Publisher page: Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia – Tracey Thorn
Tracey Thorn‘s wonderful autobiography – if you’re a child of the 70s, read it and reminisce. It’s fascinating to follow the twists and turns of Everything But the Girl‘s lives, professional and personal, and to get a glimpse of the chance events which resulted in the songs and albums which I hang my memories from – Amplified Heart and Walking Wounded are the CDs that accompanied my six months in Paris.
Publisher page: Bedsit Disco Queen – Tracey Thorn