I Shoot Rock Stars: The Wild Adventures of a Music Video Director 'A hugely entertaining read' Robert Smith - Hardcover

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Tim Pope has directed over 200 music videos and live performance movies since the early 1980s for artists and bands including Neil Young, David Bowie, Queen, Paul McCartney, The Pretenders, The Bangles, Siouxsie Sioux and Iggy Pop. His name is perhaps most synonymous with The Cure, for whom he has made thirty-seven videos and two concert films.

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'THE BOOK IS A HUGELY ENTERTAINING READ. VERY EXCELLENT!' Robert Smith (The Cure)

'Tim Pope is, to my mind, the absolute dog's bollocks in the world of pop video. He is the OG, the Don, he literally wrote the book.' Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim)

'Tim crashed the stage, camera on a fishing rod, chasing the shot he was seeing ... and the next thing I knew, he was pressing it into my forehead. The book brought that moment vividly back.' Neil Young

'For "Sex Dwarf", Tim threw a bucket of maggots over us as I ran around in a leather jockstrap. There was a moment when we all thought, perhaps this time we've gone too far. It's all in here.' Marc Almond (Soft Cell)

'A dirty little page-turner from England's greatest music video director. Like the man himself, it made me laugh and weep - all at the same time.' Matt Johnson (The The)

'Tim has so many stories and a brilliant way of telling them.' Tim Burgess (The Charlatans)

'Tim is a strange person.' Iggy Pop

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The 1980s saw the explosion in popularity of a new medium: the music video. Fanboy-turned-director Tim Pope was at the forefront of this wild ride, creating classic videos for the likes of The Cure, Queen, Talk Talk, Wham!, Hall & Oates, Siouxsie & the Banshees and The Bangles, among others.

From dressing Freddie Mercury as a giant Mediterranean prawn to being called a 'funny little arsehole' by David Bowie; hanging out with Neil Young on his family ranch or locking The Cure in a wardrobe and launching it off a cliff, Tim had a front-row seat on the excesses, egos and larger-than-life characters of the era.

Capturing the improvisational mood of a time when directors worked guerrilla-style, money flowed freely and no idea was too wacky to pursue, I Shoot Rock Stars is the hilarious and moving story of a music-mad kid who ended up working with his heroes, and who here chronicles his - and his industry's - creative triumphs and follies in riotous style.