Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom

Lessons from a Dissolute Life

Simon Napier-Bell

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Unbound
01 May 2023

Music; Rock & Pop music; Memoirs; Popular culture

The legendary music impresario (and producer of bands likeThe Yardbirds and Wham!)tells his life story in a series of mesmerisingly candid vignettes.

Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom: Lessons from a Dissolute Lifeis the book Simon Napier-Bell's fans have always hoped he'd write.

From 1940s London where he listened to wartime hits like 'Mairzy doats and dozy doats' in the air-raid shelter; to talking about Wham! with Deng Xiaoping, head of Communist China, or getting stoned with Elaine May and Jack Lemmon by the pool in 60s Beverly Hills,Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottommakes most memoirs look like thin gruel by comparison. This is a high-octane explosion of a book, a kaleidoscopic sequence of more than sixty 'lessons' drawn from a life lived to the full: frank, funny, freewheeling and honest.

There are anecdotes of the acts he managed (the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Marc Bolan, Japan, Sinitta, Boney M, Candi Staton, Ultravox, Asia, Wham!, George Michael and Sinead O'Connor) but there's also the wisdom gathered from a louche life of clubs, restaurants, gigs, arrests, awards, bankruptcies, bereavements, booze, coups and sex, both gay and straight.

By: Simon Napier-Bell
Imprint: Unbound
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 159mm,
ISBN: 9781800181892
ISBN 10: 1800181892
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 May 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Simon Napier-Bell has been a film composer, songwriter, record producer, and author, but he is best known for having managed such artists as The Yardbirds, Marc Bolan, Japan and Wham!Under his management, Wham! became the first Western pop group ever to play in Communist China. He is the author of four acclaimed books about the music industry: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me, Black Vinyl White Powder, I'm Coming to Take You to Lunch and The Business. He is CEO of the Pierbel Entertainment Group, and continues to consult, write and broadcast on the music industry.

Reviews for Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom: Lessons from a Dissolute Life

'Never has anybody had so much fun, remembered it so precisely and made so much sense of it all' Mark Ellen 'A deliciously gossipy new memoir that lifts the lid on six decades managing the biggest egos on the planet' Daily Express