The unmissable memoir from the Fall guitarist and fashion expert.
'A rock 'n' roll must-read' NME
The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own
words, of Brix Smith Start. Best known for her work in The Fall at the
time when they were perhaps the most powerful and influential
anti-authoritarian postpunk band in the world -- This Nation's Saving
Grace, The Wonderful and Frightening World Of ... -- Brix spent ten
years in the band before a violent disintegration led to her exit and
the end of her marriage with Mark E Smith.
But Brix's story is much more than rock 'n' roll highs and lows in one
of the most radically dysfunctional bands around. Growing up in the
Hollywood Hills in the '60s in a dilapidated pink mansion her life has
taken her from luxury to destitution, from the cover of the NME to
waitressing in California, via the industrial wasteland of Manchester in
the 1980s. What emerges is a story of constant reinvention, jubilant
highs and depressive ebbs; a singular journey of a teenage American girl
on a collision course with English radicalism on her way to mid-life
success on TV and in fashion.
Too bizarre, extreme and unlikely to exist in the pages of fiction, The
Rise, The Fall, and The Rise could only exist in the pages of a memoir.
