Animal House

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More recently, Jermaine Beckford scoring a winner for Leeds v Bristol Rovers which got the ten-man LUFC promoted from League 1 in the dying minutes of a game. It won every award going, year after year, and came to define not only its audience but also a generation.

Since the turn of the century, his only notable vices, as far as I can see, have been Red Bull, Chocolate Hob Nobs and Leeds Utd. He tells me he’s finished his book, the one about the bloke who started Loaded, who went on tour with U2 and was in a ballet with The Fall, who played football with The Cult, drank liquid acid with the Beastie Boys, and discussed the debatable merits of hot or cold lamb over lunch with Michael Caine.

Name dropping and bar-propping, the loaded founder’s memoir is a sometimes enjoyable, but more often obnoxious tribute to excess. 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. Pretty soon, at the age of 22, he was the Features Editor at the legendary NME, which is where I first encountered his work. At first this book seemed like it was right up my street, especially given that I had actually completed some work experience as a late teenager at Loaded magazine.

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). I was explaining you’d have to do something really bad like that, and there’s no point moving into controversial territory. From dancing down the front at Redskins gigs to brushing shoulders with royalty - has success changed your political outlook at all?Was here for the anecdotes about the people in the 'scene' in the ,80s,/90s but all you get is Brown's impact on the 80s/90s. Loaded's unexpected success legitimised (and paid for) James's lifestyle, and it wasn't until he crashed and burned at GQ, and went through rehab, that any sense of perspective kicked in. I would like to have read more about his work post-GQ and I found the sections about his recovery from drug addiction thoughtful and sensitive and I felt that they gave a careful balance to the many anecdotes of drug fuelled behaviour that preceded it.