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**A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN & TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** **INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH** **GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY** **FINANCIAL TIMES \'BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2022\' PICK** \'Incredibly moving.\' - Guardian\'Entertaining.\' - Telegraph\'Most books about pop stars focus on the way we turn average human beings into demi-gods.

In writing a book about how they have to turn back into humans Nick Duerden has done both us and them a service.\' - David Hepworth\'Funny, poignant and often inspirational.\' - Mat Osman The desire for adulation is a light that never goes out.

We live in a culture obsessed by the notion of fame - the heedless pursuit of it;