Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). We get anecdotes about hanging out with the KLF in Sweden, the Beastie Boys in America and the Happy Mondays in Brazil. There were a few too many drug/alcohol related tales in the book for me, however I would also argue that most of them did feel related to a bigger context (e. The Chalke History Festival announces a new name, new look, and tons for history buffs to get their teeth into! uk/landing-page/quercus/quercus-company-information/">The data controller is Quercus Editions Ltd.

Quite often that was because something else had happened in my life in between and, instead of being able to understand how to process that, I would take it out on the next person. Confucius, or more likely Mark Twain, once said, “If you find a job you like doing, you’ll never work a day in your life”. Trouble does seem to follow Brown – and he freely admits that at Loaded he was making the publishers so much money he was allowed to get away with it. There are people I wish I’d seen rather than interviewed, so the Small Faces and The Clash and The Faces in their prime, for instance.We had one rehearsal and put posters up saying we were on much to the dismay of the organizer, who didn’t really know how to react to his line-up being hijacked. It tested appallingly in focus groups, but legend has it that Lewis altered the figures, and so the project was greenlighted. Not quite a fully-fleshed memoir although things pick up nicely when the focus moves to Loaded magazine's inception. I’ve never brushed shoulders with royalty and I’d prefer it if the Royal Family invested a lot of their wealth in helping our schools and health service, so no, I don’t think my political outlook has changed since I was down the front of the Redskins or New Town Neurotics at the Hull Trades and Labour club.

But asked if he has regrets about any of the stuff they published – even the glorification of the drugs that nearly killed him – Brown pauses, laughs and says no. I think James is a good example of the old adage 'make your hobby your job and never work a day in your life'.James started out as a gobby, sugar-fuelled hyper-active kid selling his music fanzine Attack On Bzag at gigs up and down the UK.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that Loaded and it’s subsequent influence not only changed magazines, but helped to redefine British popular culture.It was at this period where he was offered professional help regarding this addictions, something that was a turning point to cleaner living and most probably saved his life. One memorable trip to Brazil culminated in a series of escapades that I won’t recount here, but suffice to say the Loaded press trips were not for the faint-hearted or weak of stomach. The fact he read it in such a conversational way was a huge bonus and made you feel part of a conversation. It helped that Condé Nast were waving heaps of money at Brown for him to edit the upmarket fashion magazine GQ, believing it had got stuffy and needed an injection of fun.