Alex’s review of Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars > Likes and Comments

Duerden flubs more spectacularly still when he segues back to them as a band "whose members have probably never used a boxing metaphor in their lives", clearly ignorant of their having released a single called Lessons Learned From Rocky I To Rocky III.

Amazing. This sounds interesting…the one thing I retained from Louise Wener's memoir is this image of her sitting around in her suburban house remembering the gigs from the old days and wishing she'd "snogged fame harder when she had the chance" (or something like that).

I once saw Wener coming out of Muji in the early noughties with a very particular expression on her face, which the ex I was with and I both agreed (once Wener was well out of earshot) was wanting someone to recognise her so she could act exasperated as if that still happened all the time.

That's a superb review!

I just finished this and had the same response to Murphy's tales of oligarch parties. Like, mate, WTF?

There was a lot of that sort of stuff going on for a while, so in some ways she's just unlucky to be the one going on the record so larkily.