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Book review: Exit Stage Left – A wry look at the second lives of yesterday’s musical idols
Music journalist Nick Duerden tracks down a succession of former pop stars to find out what happened when the hits dried up – and the results are hugely entertaining
For a period in the 1990s and 2000s, the now-defunct Q magazine ran a regular feature called ’Where are they now?’, in which the British music title unearthed former rock stars and gaily informed us what they were doing with their time.
Some of them had once graced Top of the Pops and were now on stage only at Butlins. Others had become insurance sales people, backroom music executives and farmers. One, a fellow from ...