The Smiths' Meat is Murder the beatles Women have been kicking against

Women have been kicking against the pricks of music patriarchy since Sister Rosetta Tharpe first played the guitar riffs that built rock-n-roll

focusing on his enduring mythology

A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985

with a foreword by legendary music producer Tony Visconti and an afterword from Def Leppard's Joe Elliot

The Smiths' Meat is Murder the beatles Women have been kicking againstA Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison), with a band (The Smiths) and with an album, Meat is Murder, that was so raw, so vivid and so melodic that you could cling to it like a lifeboat in a storm. In this brilliant novella Joe Pernice tells the story of an asthmatic kid's discovery of Meat is