Sort-of autobiography of the band recounts the lives of its founding members, William and Jim Reid, in their own voices
Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain by William and Jim Reid – pleasantly spiky, unpleasantly needy
Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain recounts the lives of its founding members, William and Jim Reid, in their own voices. Three years apart, the brothers experienced different alienations in parallel. Born in a Glasgow tenement overlooking an Irn Bru factory, they moved to East Kilbride when they were still children. William missed his old life and friends. Jim, too young to have childhood memories of Glasgow, lacked even the comfort of a nostalgic connection to that city.
They did. Fans rioted and the music press loved writing about them. But the savvy that allowed them to manage the effect they were producing didn’t follow them far into their major-label career. As much as they admit embarrassment at their naivety, they still seem to find it priggish that people didn’t like them turning up drunk to meetings with the Warner chief executive, or that promoters and TV runners wanted them sober enough to play their songs.
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