CLEAN LIVING UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES (MOD) (PB)

This is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End of London. Written with humour, passion and attention to detail by born storyteller Eddie Piller, it takes us from meeting the Small Faces as a toddler, to the 1979 Mod revival, through the more purist 1980s mod scene and eventually to Acid Jazz. With a foreword by Paul Weller, this is an evocative trip into a world of scooters, clothes, and music set in decaying seaside towns, East End backstreet boozers and sweaty teenage gigs, all fizzing with an uncontainable excitement and often exploding into violence.