Waterstones Liverpool are delighted to present an evening with Paul Simpson as he discusses his long-awaited memoir “Revolutionary Spirit – A Post-Punk Exorcism: The Teardrop Explodes, Care, The Wild Swans and Beyond”. Paul will be in conversation with Will Sergeant.
Part memoir, part social history, Revolutionary Spirit is the poignant, often hilarious story of a cult Liverpool musician s scenic route to fame and artistic validation. If Morrissey was the Oscar Wilde of the 1980s indie scene, Simpson was its William Blake, a self-destructive genius so lost in mystical visions of a new arcadia that he couldn’t meet the rent.