Ciao Ciao Bambino: A Magical MemoirMichael HeadLabel: Nine Eight BooksDescription: For over forty years Michael Head has been creating inspirational music that is rooted in the streets of Liverpool. He formed Pale Fountains with his friend Chris McCaffrey in the early 1980s and then after McCaffrey tragically died from a brain tumour he went on to create Shack with his brother John. But during a career that has been beset with tragedy addiction loss and bad luck Head has continued to create exceptional music - and in 2022 he had his biggest commercial success with The Red Elastic Band's Dear Scott.This is Head's story. It is a story of growing up in Liverpool of thwarted dreams self-sabotage chronic substance abuse homelessness and brushes with death. It is also a story of an under-appreciated genius of transcendental songs and the healing power of art and music and family and love.This is the life-affirming story of Michael Head told in his own poetic voice a man who walked barefoot over broken glass for forty years before the world caught up with what the faithful already knew: this man is Britain's greatest songwriter.
