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New Order’s Stephen Morris to publish autobiography
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 12 October 2016
New Order drummer Stephen Morris is following bandmates Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook into the world of autobiography writing. He’s signed a deal with Little Brown subsidiary Constable to release a book in 2018.
“After dropping pretty big hints over the past few years that I was writing about my recollections of nearly four decades living a fantastic and, at times traumatic, life creating music in Joy Division and New Order, I am delighted that Little Brown has given my writing a home”, says Morris. “I am really excited to be working with Andreas Campomar, whose enthusiasm for developing something more than a straight rock memoir is inspiring”.
The Andreas Campomar mentioned there adds: “Stephen’s book won’t be that typical music autobiography, which tends to be high on mischief and low on the music. Part memoir, part visual scrapbook, part aural history, it will be a hybrid memoir in Stephen’s wry and witty voice. Stephen will weave a dual narrative of growing up in the North West during the 1970s with how the music actually works. It will also explore what it is to be part of a mythologised band and the idea of what you do becoming who you are”.
Sumner released his autobiography, ‘Chapter & Verse’, in 2014, while Hook’s ‘Substance: Inside New Order’ came out last week.
