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Animal House
- Narrated by: James Brown
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
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Summary
A dangerously enticing welcome to the now lost world of magazines and the excesses of the 1990s.
Music, Magazines & Mayhem
Between 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade. It won every award going, year after year, and came to define not only its audience but also a generation. Bright, loud, funny, provocative, ambitious and careless, loaded was read from the barracks of Afghanistan to the England dressing room at Euro '96. It captured a hedonistic lifestyle of alcohol, cocaine and more. The last great hurrah before the end of the century. It was the biggest noise in the golden generation of magazine publishing, rocketing from zero to half a million sales in a matter of months. What MTV had been to the '80s, loaded was to the '90s.
Animal House follows James Brown's remarkable career from a high school drop-out fanzine writer with few qualifications to NME features editor aged 22, and loaded founder at 27. In between, his mother died in tragic circumstances and gradually his own drug and alcohol use began to take over. Loaded's unexpected success legitimised (and paid for) James's lifestyle, and it wasn't until he crashed and burned at GQ, and went through rehab, that any sense of perspective kicked in.
Recuperating on the island of Mustique whilst plotting his return with Oz founder Felix Denis, James was asked by neighbour Lord Patrick Lichfield: "How on earth did you manage to sell so many magazines whilst taking so many drugs?"
This audiobook is his answer.
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- Giles
- 29-02-24
fun.
Brilliant book if you were a youngster when loaded keep out, so good. heartfelt amazing. I like him alot.
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- jeoff houlker
- 06-02-24
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I thought that the author's honesty is breathtaking. Really enjoyed as I am 55 and a similar vintage to James. Resonance with bands, Vic & Bob, NME, Stu Mac, et al. What a time to be alive!
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- Steven Lomax
- 01-10-23
Fantastic
Definitely give this a go - especially if you like the 90s/music/loaded magazine just great
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- Robert Green
- 18-09-23
If you remember the 90's you weren't really there.
I remember when Loaded 1st came out, it was such a great read, but then it changed for me and the adverts were for things I could never afford and it spoke less and less to me like it did in it's early editions. So i was interested to hear James Brown's story. I wasn't disappointed, I'm surprised he's still alive. A great listen
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- Mosstin Powers
- 23-08-23
Egomaniac writes book
Not since the first Moby book have I listened to such self-absorbed crap. Was here for the anecdotes about the people in the 'scene' in the ,80s,/90s but all you get is Brown's impact on the 80s/90s.
Rubbish.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-07-23
Incredible!!!!
This has to be the best autobiog I’ve ever read/listened too. I couldn’t stop listening to it. Listened within days. The way James reads also makes it a top top listen.
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- Maria W
- 13-07-23
So much history and funny detail!
I thoroughly enjoyed this! I was particularly impressed by how much of his life James had remembered considering how intoxicated he was for much of it!
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- Dave Hogarth
- 22-06-23
Superb
Fantastic listen via Audible, even better being read by James himself. Loads of Leeds memories and as someone who followed his career, brilliant to get additional insight to the articles I can remember reading. Genuine butty down experience, cheers James.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-06-23
Entertaining
I liked that it was read by the author, especially when he laughs while telling particularly funny stories. Its interesting throughout
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- D JARVIS
- 02-05-23
Fantastic!
A real insight into the wonderful decade that was the 90s.
Brilliantly funny though out and read by the man who lived it!
Also, I like how he says the word “crisps”.
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