**A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN & TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022** **INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE MONTH** **GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY** **FINANCIAL TIMES ''BEST SUMMER BOOKS 2022'' PICK** ''Incredibly moving.'' - Guardian''Entertaining.'' - Telegraph''Most books about pop stars focus on the way we turn average human beings into demi-godsIn writing a book about how they have to turn back into humans Nick Duerden has done both us and them a service.'' - David Hepworth''Funny, poignant and often inspirational.'' - Mat Osman The desire for adulation is a light that never goes outWe live in a culture obsessed by the notion of fame - the heedless pursuit of it; the almost obligatory subsequent fallout. But what''s it like to actually achieve it, and what happens when fame abruptly passes, and shifts, as it does, onto someone else?This is the point at which pop stars are at their most heroic, because they don''t give upThey keep on striving, keep making music, and refuse simply to ebb away. Some