A TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR AN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR
A RESIDENT MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR In Never Understood William Jim tell the story of The
Jesus and Mary Chain - one of Britain's greatest guitar bands - for the very first time. A
wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife feedback riots drug and
alcohol addiction eternal outsiders and extreme shyness - and a love letter to the Scottish
working-class family - Never Understood is a bona-fide classic of rock 'n' roll literature.
'Here is the story of the Reid brothers' rollercoaster life. Scream if you want to go faster:
they'll almost certainly oblige' Ian Rankin 'Entertaining . . . fraught funny and
occasionally farcical' The Scotsman
