Rory Sullivan-Burke was on a train journey to see his eldest daughter when the idea of writing a biography of one post-punk’s brightest talents, John McGeoch, struck him.
“I was listening to a bit of the Banshees at the time and thought, I’d really like to read a book about John McGeoch,” he recalls. “I was such a massive Magazine and Banshees fan, I thought I’m sure that would be a really interesting story. I assumed that there had to be a book already written about him, but searching on my phone I realised my God, there isn’t a book about someone who was, to my mind anyway, just about the most influential and important post-punk guitarist.
“To have had the career that he’d had and for it to have kind of finished, really, and he had to do something else, but to choose to do that is probably quite humbling because it’s not glamorous work and it’s not really very desireable work if we’re being honest about it, but for him to do it and to do it as lovingly as he did I think spoke volumes. He was an incredibly interesting man and had a lot of strings to his bow.
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