Street-Level Superstar av Will Hodgkinson

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''Will has finally written his masterpiece. I''m glad I could be of assistance'' LAWRENCE''Essential reading'' JARVIS COCKER''Wonderful'' BOBBY GILLESPIE''A fascinating tale beautifully told'' BRETT ANDERSONLawrence is the greatest pop star who never made it, his dreams of glory thwarted over the past five decades by bad luck and self-sabotage. At sixty-one, he set off on a new mission: to escape poverty, obscurity and the humiliation of kids at the bus stop laughing at him by writing a smash hit. But what is the cost of a dream? In 1980, Lawrence formed Felt, who released ten albums and ten singles in ten years before splitting up. In 1991, he reinvented himself with novelty-pop outfit Denim. Signed to EMI, riding the wave of Britpop, in 1997, Denim''s song ''Summer Smash'' became Radio 1''s Single of the Week and looked like a sure-fire hit. Then Princess Diana was killed in a car crash. All copies were melted down. Crushing depression, addiction and homelessness followed... but in t