<p><b><i>SUNDAY TIMES</i> MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR<br>ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR<br><i>MOJO </i>BOOK OF THE YEAR<br></b><br>In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band as she couldn''t play an instrument and she''d never seen a girl play electric guitar.<br><br>A year later, she was the guitarist in the hugely influential all-girl band the Slits, who fearlessly took on the male-dominated music scene and became part of a movement that changed music.<br><br>A raw, thrilling story of life on the frontiers and a candid account of Viv''s life post-punk - taking in a career in film, the pain of IVF, illness and divorce and the triumph of making music again - <i>Clothes Music Boys</i> is a remarkable memoir.</p>