**A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN & TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**
**INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH**
**GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY**
**FINANCIAL TIMES ''BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2022'' PICK**
''Incredibly moving.'' - Guardian
''Entertaining.'' - Telegraph
''Most books about pop stars focus on the way we turn average human beings into demi-gods. In writing a book about how they have to turn back into humans Nick Duerden has done both us and them a service.'' - David Hepworth
''Funny, poignant and often inspirational.'' - Mat Osman
The desire for adulation is a light that never goes out. We live in a culture obsessed by the notion of fame - the heedless pursuit of it; the almost obligatory subsequent fallout. But what''s it like to actually achieve it, and what happens when
