{"product_id":"the-story-of-the-streets-by-mike-skinner","title":"The Story of the Streets. by Mike Skinner","description":"\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE NME BEST BOOK AWARDThis book is going to try and get as close as possible to the full story of what informed the noise of The Streets. Obviously thats something I should be fairly well-qualified to know about  and Im going to be as honest as the publishers lawyers will allow.With the 2001 release of The Streets debut single Has It Come To This? the landscape of British popular music changed forever. No longer did homegrown rappers have to anxiously defer to transatlantic influences. Mike Skinners witty  self-deprecating sagas of late-night kebab shops and skunk-fuelled Playstation sessions showed how much you could achieve simply by speaking in your own voice.In this thoroughly modern memoir  the man the Guardian once dubbed half Dostoevsky . . . half Samuel Pepys tells a freewheeling  funny and fearlessly honest tale of Birmingham and London  ecstasy and epilepsy  Twitter-fear and Spectrum joysticks  spread-betting and growing up. He writes of his musical inspirations  role models and rivals  the craft of songwriting and reflects on the successes and failures of the decade-long journey of The Streets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986313343029,"sku":"ByrdShop_0593068076","price":315.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780593068076.jpg?v=1770895749","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-story-of-the-streets-by-mike-skinner","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}