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FOREVER BREATHES THE LONELY WORD (2023 reissue)

LP - £23.99 | Buy
During the 80s Felt recorded ten albums and ten singles for the Cherry Red and Creation labels.
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IGNITE THE SEVEN CANNONS (2023 reissue)

black lp - £25.99 | Buy
Finally, these songs can be heard as intended by Felt.
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THE STRANGE IDOLS PATTERN AND OTHER SHORT STORIES (remastered & revisited)

cd w/ new artwork - £9.99
Merging pop with a classical nuance Felt stood alone as the forerunners of a brand new style.
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THE SPLENDOUR OF FEAR (remastered & revisited)

cd w/ new artwork - £9.99
Lawrence escapes the contours of a bland city and retreats into his mind.
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POEM OF THE RIVER (remastered & revisited)

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Mayo Thompson recorded and produced six tracks - two of these were replaced - the remaining four songs were reluctantly remixed by Robin Guthrie at Cocteau Twin...
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FOREVER BREATHES THE LONELY WORD (remastered & revisited)

cd w/ new artwork - £9.99
Dazzling - Breathtaking - The album Bob Dylan should have made in the ‘80s.
Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence

Will Hodgkinson

Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence

Nine Eight Books
  • Standard Unsigned Hardback book

    Released: 5th Sep 2024

    £22.00
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Whether you have an encyclopaedic or scant knowledge of the visor-shaded, liquorice-loving enigma of Felt / Denim / Go Kart Mozart / Mozart Estate “fame”, you must wander with him and his adroit, patient author buddy through the streets of London.

A fascinating, droll, insightful, tragic, and curiously compelling chronicle.

Lawrence is the greatest pop star you have never heard of, 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 1979, 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 the face of it all, Lawrence never gave up.

In 'Street-Level Superstar', bestselling author and journalist, Will Hodgkinson, follows Lawrence as he rebuilds his life.

He gets mistaken for an old lady by an amorous pensioner, is reduced to dragging sacks of 2p coins to his local bank and wanders through London's distant suburbs in search of lyrical inspiration. As they walk together down rain-soaked streets, Will tells the story of Britain's most eccentric cult star.

Will he write the greatest song the world has ever known before the year is out?

And was it worth sacrificing everything - family, relationships, health, sanity - for art?

“Will make you laugh and cry – Lawrence is a monument to the power of Pop. The best and the worst of it. Essential reading” - Jarvis Cocker