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The Hacienda

How Not to Run a Club

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The Hacienda

By: Peter Hook
Narrated by: Peter Hook
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Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for 30 years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's Hacienda club, Hook propelled the rise of acid house in the late 1980s, then suffered through its violent fall in the 1990s as gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything he and his friends had created.

This is his memory of that era and 'it's far sadder, funnier, scarier and stranger' than anyone has imagined. As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid £20 per week. Peter Hook looked back at that exciting and hilarious time to write Hacienda. All the main characters appear - Tony Wilson, Barney, Shaun Ryder - and Hook tells it like it was - a rollercoaster of success, money, confusion and true faith.

©2009 Peter Hook (P)2010 Simon & Schuster 20th Century Anthropology Entertainment & Celebrities Europe Great Britain Modern Music Celebrity Witty England

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Peter Hook is a scream telling his stories of the Haçienda 'glory' days. Works extremely well as an autonarrative audiobook, no one else could have done it justice the way he does.

Hilarious and shocking

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Total pleasure to listen to. Had me hanging on to every word. Brilliantly narrated by Peter Hook. Highly recommend.

Absolute Quality

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An eye opener for anyone thinking about opening a club . Very entertaining stright from the Horse's Mouth. Well worth a listen.

Another great story

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Amazing what you would never know until someone is honest enough to tell it how they saw it. Again it goes to show what a rip off the business surrounding bands and music is. great delivery , great story, good job.

Short but insightful

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Really enjoyed the story and the musical interludes took me back to the best days of clubbing.

A great behind the scenes exposure

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relaxed. conversational. funny. comes alive off the page. hooky needs to do them all. fab. please note it is heavily abridged.

hooky should narrate all his books. top delivery

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Was great to hear Hooky weave his way around this amazing story, art and culture - “And on the sixth day, God created Manchester”

FAC 51

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I'm now in my early 40's so this was my era of clubbing and although I never went I was familiar with the goings on at the Hacienda. Read brilliantly and deadpan funny by the author. Worth a listen to by any northerner of my age who used to go to the early raves and clubs

Deadpan Funny

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Hooky's an excellent writer, its like being in the pub with a few mates and being told some right tales over a few pints, the Hacienda was Manchesters mecca, nice one lad!

An absolute pleasure to read

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Really enjoyed listening to this. Peter Hook is a true legend and The Hacienda sounds like an absolute blast. Wish I could have been a part of it, without all the agro at least...

Great stuff love it...

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