{"product_id":"shaun-ryder-wrote-for-luck-selected-lyrics","title":"Shaun Ryder: Wrote For Luck (Selected Lyrics)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 3\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover | \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e13.97 x 1.91 x 22.23 cm | 94 pp\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFaber \u0026amp; Faber | 2019 | \u003c\/span\u003e9780571330935\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the mid-1980s the Happy Mondays emerged as the prime mischief makers on the Madchester scene. Chief protagonist was Shaun Ryder, a man whose lyrical street swagger in songs like Kinky Afro, 24 Hour Party People and Performance, would come to define a generation. Here, collected and edited for the first time, are his unforgettable lyrics with commentary by the man himself and an introduction by his literary collaborator, Luke Bainbridge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith characteristic understatement, Tony Wilson once compared Shaun William Ryder's lyrics to the poetry of W. B. Yeats. That is, if W. B. Yeats had been an inveterate drug-taker and occasional dealer, a compatriot of criminals and crazies, an aficionado of low life and high times; if he had painted artful sketches of endless parties and urban blight, of chancers, dead beats, fanatics and, always, an endless stream of pharmaceuticals; if W. B. Yeats had composed fractured, hilarious, grubby and shrewdly observed anthems for the Madchester generation. That W. B. Yeats: Shaun William Ryder.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44212632518914,"sku":"BK-FAF-SRWFL-001-R","price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_5735_b179a56e-9c26-449a-880f-bda4529eadd0.jpg?v=1790069501","url":"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk\/products\/shaun-ryder-wrote-for-luck-selected-lyrics","provider":"Books About Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}