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Admitting he was “always drawn to outsider artists”, Fried & Justified is the memoir of independent music publicist Mick Houghton, who lifts the lid on his time behind the scenes of some of music’s most headstrong, independently motivated artists.
With a roster which included The KLF (Bill Drummond writes the book’s foreword; Jimmy Cauty designs the cover), Echo & The Bunnymen, Julian Cope, The Jesus & Mary Chain and Spiritualized, Houghton was granted an all-access pass to some of music’s most notoriously challenging personalities, dealing with egos, drug habits and bust-ups among other things.