Title: The Life & Lines Of Brandon Block: The Official Brandon Block Biography
Publisher: Block & Troll
Publication Date: 2011
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1467923400
ISBN 13: 9781467923408
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Weight: 18 ounces

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Brandon Block, the joker in the pack, the Ibiza nutter , the party animal who single-handedly created the Caner Of The Year category, was literally lying on his death bed. And despite the chronic situation that he found himself in, with drips attached to his ravaged body as he battled jaundice and tuberculosis, he was still trying his hardest to shovel as much cocaine as possible up that famous hooter of his! The result of a spiralling drug habit which, at its peak, saw him take an ounce of coke a day, was his bewildered doctor telling him that he would die within two weeks if he didn t stop pronto. But that wasn t going to deter Brandon. No chance! He pleaded with friends to bring coke to the hospital and they duly, if reluctantly, obliged. If he was on his way out, then he was going out on a high, at least that was the twisted and warped way he looked at it. But by then he had to take so much of the stuff for it to actually register that it almost defeated the object.Clubland had snorted him up one nostril and blown him out of the other. A haunting shadow of the livewire DJ who leapt on to the house music scene in the late 80s, Brandon somehow managed to drag himself out of the mire and lived to tell the tale. With his astronomical coke habit - and the complex network of dealers who fuelled it - now fortunately in the past, he is able to look back (through somewhat hazy spectacles) on a 25-year-career which spans the highest highs and lowest lows.His own success and turmoil has weaved in and out of the so-called acid house generation and seen Blocko, like no other DJ, crossover into mainstream celebrity too. Five million Google images of him - compared to 900,000 of Carl Cox or 800,000 Tiesto, both global megastars - tells its own tale. While his pioneering residency with Alex P on the Space terrace in Ibiza in the early 90s took club life in Ibiza and throughout the world to a whole new dimension. Meanwhile, away from the edgy world of underground dance music, he famously stormed the Brits stage, scrapping with Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, ending up splashed across the front of the tabloids the next day, with Richard and Judy appealing for his whereabouts later that night! He talked about coke addiction on national television and later celebrity detoxed in Thailand, among a whole host of other reality TV show appearances. He s presented (for MTV/Channel 4/Kiss 100) and produced (a No 3 UK hit as Blockster). These days his bookings diary is still full and his love of DJing remains, but you ll also find him down the gym three times a week, or playing badminton with pals. Sure he still likes a drink, but insists he hasn t touched the white stuff since 1996. In this amazing account we look back at the career of this cheeky chappie made good, a DJ who was there from the very start of the modern-day club movement, who had grafted as a pub and mobile DJ during the mid- 80s, a few years later finding himself in a prime position when, like many others, he discovered the drug ecstasy and house music quickly followed a love of disco, soul, jazz funk and hip-hop. This rollercoaster of a ride charts how that underground dance music scene became a national and global phenomenon and how Brandon was intrinsically linked to it all, headlining an era that changed the lives of millions, but also becoming a symbol for its excess. We witness the meteoric rise of a shy Jewish schoolboy from Wembley who became an Ibiza legend along the way. And how he and his suburban peers led a recklessly hedonistic lifestyle that was the envy of their generation.We see how the odd cheeky half here and there led to more cocaine than you can shake a rolled-up bank note at. It's messy, murky, mental and memorable and often takes no prisoners.... and here it is - the life and lines of Mr Brandon Block! Snorts and all.

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Matt Trollope completed his NCTJ journalism degree in 1991 and became a news reporter for the east London and Essex-based Recorder Group Series. Matt’s club and music columns later ran across nine Recorder titles during the ‘90s, and he went on to freelance for various national music publications. He has also worked within the dance music and nightclub industry on various projects, co-owning record shop and DJ agency Izit Dance (1994-2003) and west London bar and club The Lodge (2004-2008). Matt is also the author of One More - A Definitive History Of UK Clubbing (1988-2008) and the Danniella Westbrook autobiography Faith, Hope And Clarity (2013). www.matttrollope.com

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