The Hacienda: How Not to Run a Club - Hardcover

Hook, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847371353 ISBN 13: 9781847371355

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's Hacienda club, Hook propelled the rise of acid house in the late 1980s, then suffered through its violent fall in the 1990s as gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything he and his friends had created. This is his memory of that era and 'it's far sadder, funnier, scarier and stranger' than anyone has imagined. As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid GBP20 per week. Peter Hook looked back at that exciting and hilarious time to write HACIENDA. All the main characters appear - Tony Wilson, Barney, Shaun Ryder - and Hook tells it like it was - a rollercoaster of success, money, confusion and true faith.

About this title

Review:

'Transcended the brief of the dried-out, score-settling rocker's memoir thanks to a low-temperature wit and a rich sense of place' --Books of the Year, Keith Miller, TLS 3/12

From the Publisher:

Signed & numbered hand bound limited edition of 400 copies including:

extra material not included in the first edition;
an exclusive 10 inch record;
a piece of the original Hacienda dancefloor rescued from the club by Hooky;
photographs of rare memorabilia and more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847371353
• ISBN 13: 9781847371355
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224