Never Understood

The Jesus and Mary Chain

By: William Reid, Jim Reid

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Paperback | 10 July 2025 | Edition Number 1

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304 Pages

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19.7 x 12.9 x 2.4

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A TELEGRAPH MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
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In Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain, William and Jim tell their own story for the very first time: an account of one of Britain's greatest guitar bands.

A wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders and extreme shyness - and a love letter to the Scottish working-class family - Never Understood is a bona-fide classic of rock 'n' roll literature.

About the Authors

Brothers William and Jim Reid are founding members of The Jesus and Mary Chain.
Many revere them as true rock 'n' roll anti-heroes.

Ben Thompson is a critic, ghost writer, and radio host.

Industry Reviews

???? - The Telegraph

Art ignites in the mind and, in the case of The Jesus and Mary Chain, churns relentlessly on to the centre stage. Perhaps the definitive outcasts-saved-by-rock 'n' roll story

In this entertaining autobiography, William and Jim Reid emerge as both expert chroniclers and good company . . . Fraught, funny and occasionally farcical - SCOTSMAN

Funny and moving - Observer

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