Manchester Unspun: Pop, Property and Power in the Original Modern City: How a City Got High on Music

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Andy will be in conversation with Stuart Maconie at Waterstone’s Deansgate on November 10, tickets available here.

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Elegantly interweaving his own biography with that of the city, Spinoza narrates with panache the story of how the place once known as Cottonopolis has reinvented itself.

Overall, Spinoza's memoir is very well written and he offers an antidote to the deficient journalism we have suffered over the popular music history of Manchester and its story as Britain's "second city". Welcome to Manchester, or “Manc-hattan”, as some now like to describe it with a certain degree of ambivalence. Andy Spinoza has had a front row seat to the transformation of this city, and it really comes across in his magnificent book. Manchester Unspun is a remarkable record of the city’s emergence from industrial decline over the past fifty years.