Abstract

“Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke. I’m a bit of both,” writes Viv Albertine, once the guitarist for British punk band the Slits, in the introduction to her new book, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys: A Memoir. The first chapter is titled “Masturbation”; her first anecdote ends with the lesson, “Grown-ups lie.” In her fifties now, Viv Albertine is still something of a punk.

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