The only way to appreciate the legendary Mark E Smith is to encounter the man in his own words' Ranting raging burningrelentlessly splenetic a long & sustained rant may also be the funniest music book ever written'
- Observer' Unutterably funny a riot of aimings & blamings & score-settlings Smith manages to have a right laff & reveal himself as a figure of dazzling sociological import'
- Independent on Sunday The Fall are one of the most distinctive British bands ever their music
- odd spare cranky & repetitious
- an acknowledged influence on The Smiths The Happy Mondays Nirvana & Franz Ferdinand & Mark E Smith IS The Fall
- 66 members came & went over the years yet he remained its charismatic leader until his death in 2018' If it's me & yer granny on bongos it's The Fall'
- Mark E Smith Mark was a professional outsider & all-round enemy of compromise a true enigma There have been a number of biographies of the legendary Smith but this is the first time he opened up in a full autobiography For the first time we hear his full candid take on the ups & downs of a band as notorious for its in-house fighting as for its great music; & on a life that endured prison in America drugs bankruptcy divorce & the often bleak results of a legendary thirst' Remarkable brilliant A provocative joy Smith's rant gushes like a furious fountain of razor-sharp invective over his childhood & the early days of The Fall relationships marriage the record industry musicians & his views on everything from football to mobile phones from drinking & drugs to driving from books to bankruptcy from Paul Morley to pubs Unbeatable'
- Time Out ' Engrossing exhausting dense with fascinating detail As both memoir & cultural history Renegade is a remarkable achievement'
- Daily Telegraph