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The Hacienda Abridged: How Not to Run a Club
Written by Peter Hook
Narrated by Peter Hook
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's Hacienda club, Hook propelled the rise of acid house in the late 1980s, then suffered through its violent fall in the 1990s as gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything he and his friends had created. This is his memory of that era and 'it's far sadder, funnier, scarier and stranger' than anyone has imagined.
As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid £20 per week. Peter Hook looked back at that exciting and hilarious time to write HACIENDA. All the main characters appear - Tony Wilson, Barney, Shaun Ryder - and Hook tells it like it was - a rollercoaster of success, money, confusion and true faith.
As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid £20 per week. Peter Hook looked back at that exciting and hilarious time to write HACIENDA. All the main characters appear - Tony Wilson, Barney, Shaun Ryder - and Hook tells it like it was - a rollercoaster of success, money, confusion and true faith.
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Peter Hook
Peter Hook was born in 1956 in Salford. He was a founding member of Joy Division and New Order and DJs internationally as well as touring Joy Division’s music with his new band The Light. He lives in Cheshire
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Reviews for The Hacienda Abridged
Rating: 3.962962962962963 out of 5 stars
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book made more enjoyable by Peter reading it himself. Shame that the book chapters were not always in the correct order.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Great story of a world famous club read by the man you helped start it all
Pity this edition is only half a book
Finishes unfinished after chapter 21
Wheres the rest of it - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I love the book it’s just the chapters are in the wrong order!
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5You listen to what you think is the end, and then there are some more chapters tagged on. This copy needs to be nuked and a version with the chronology in order should replace it. Phew.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The chapters are out of order, which really ruined the experience.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I really enjoyed this. Short chapters of anecdotes about the bands Joy Division New Order but mainly on the famous Manchester club the Hacienda. Read by Hooky himself.
Beware the recording order is a mess. The middle of the book is somehow at the end of this audiobook. The credits came up. I thought, that was quick, then it started up again for another hour. - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A decent listen but disappointed this audiobook isn’t the complete version. A much trimmed down version of the original book.