The Streets: Tower Blocks & Top Tens
by Jimmy Ramsay

The first and only book on Mike Skinner aka The Streets - arguably the most acclaimed new talent to emerge in the UK in recent years. Brought up around tough estates on a diet of cheap beer, hip-hop, house and jungle while working fast food jobs just to get by, Skinner bore witness to a teenage trawl through the lower stratum of society. His debut long-player, Original Pirate Material was an incendiary missive from the trenches of British working-classes - the public and media were at once alerted to a substantial new talent. The follow-up, the concept album A Grand Don't Come For Free propelled Skinner into music's royalty. He has since been labelled as 'The British Eminem', and likened to Alan Bennett and countless other lofty literary talents. Mike Skinner is a phenomenon and this incisive, unauthorised biography recounts this most extraordinary life.
 

ISBN 0 9539942 8 7 - 176 pages - Paperback - 25pp b/w pics - £6.99
Independent Music Press