Front cover of Your Money or Your Life by Marco Pirroni, hardback

Your Money or Your Life - Marco Pirroni

Marco Pirroni

£25.00
  • Pages · 336 pages
  • Publication Date · 10/09/2026
  • Genre · Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups
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The long overdue autobiography from the renowned and much-loved Adam and the Ants songwriter and guitarist. In the mid 1970's, Marco Pirroni was a shy Kings Road punk kid. He played guitar with a nascent Siouxsie and the Banshees at their debut 100 Club gig in 1976. Future Sex Pistol Sid Vicious could �often be found round at Marco's parents with a bag of laundry and a cup of tea. But as the early promise of punk rock's cultural liberation quickly soured, Marco's dreams of proper pop stardom only grew. In a few short years, alongside an ambitious fellow punk survivor called Adam who was also looking to break out of the musical ghetto and onto Top of the Pops, Marco became the musical architect of the global Antmusic phenomenon. By the time he was 21, Marco was the co-writer of the two classic number one singles �- `Prince Charming' and the Ivor Novello-winning `Stand and Deliver' �- alongside the million selling, idiosyncratic new pop masterpiece 'Kings of the Wild Frontier' and its follow up album 'Prince Charming'.�Your Money or Your Life is Marco's long-overdue and much-anticipated account of his time amidst the maelstrom of Antmania. It chronicles the breakneck period in Pirroni's life which ends in March 1982, when Adam and the Ants split up amongst heartbreak and acrimony. Revelatory, caustically hilarious and with a cast of the biggest names in entertainment including Liberace, Liza Minelli and David Bowie, Your Money or Your Life is one of the unforgettable music stories of the 1970s and 1980s.

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