By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Afterwards, his former deputy alleged that he had discussed the idea of photographing South Korean footballer Son Heung-min eating a dog, although both the magazine and Brown say these allegations were not connected to his departure and that he left on mutually good terms. A better book (possibly the next one) would result from more anecdotes, war stories and extracts from old loadeds rather than just a soupcon of an era. Along the way they dream up genius headlines like ‘Fifty ways to lose your liver’, ‘Chocolate and the Charlie factory’ and ‘Sushi and the van keys’.

There were a few too many drug/alcohol related tales in the book for me, however I would also argue that most of them did feel related to a bigger context (e. I remember opening The Charlatans first single when no one had heard of them for that week’s NME single reviews and it just stood out in its structure and confidence. Animal House takes us on a journey of what James Brown describes as his second childhood in the world of magazine publishing at NME and loaded through to his adulthood at GQ. James started out as a gobby, sugar-fuelled hyper-active kid selling his music fanzine Attack On Bzag at gigs up and down the UK.On one occasion, Brown says, the references to narcotics became so overt that the publisher at IPC became worried the drug squad might be about to turn up. None that I can remember as a teenager, he was more influential in the books he gave me, like The Great Shark Hunt and Hells Angels by Hunter S Thompson, and The Electric Cool Aid Acid Test by Tim Wolfe. Why mention his media power list position at all, if only to claim he doesn’t give a fuck in the next sentence? The first few chapters reeled me in in excited anticipation, so I decided to reach out to the author and applaud him on a good read, and to see if he may have remembered me (I wasn't expecting him to by the way but I wanted to show support).

I would like to have read more about his work post-GQ and I found the sections about his recovery from drug addiction thoughtful and sensitive and I felt that they gave a careful balance to the many anecdotes of drug fuelled behaviour that preceded it. The cumulative effects of living with and without a parent with this most cruel of illnesses found expression in the kind of habits and mindset that both propelled him to the top and very nearly killed him.But in this instance, there seems to be zero humility from the author, or any sort of inward looking acknowledgement of his behaviour. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.