Fred Vermorel – författare

Party-girl supreme and queen of street fashion, supermodel and millionairess, Kate Moss is as familiar in headlines as on the catwalk as the twin narratives of lurid tabloid stories and continuing adulation of the fashion industry demonstrates to all the paradox of fame. Whether she’s partying, finding another way to get out of it, or strutting self-assuredly down a catwalk in Paris you can be sure photographers are in a huddle close by, ready splash her or crash her in tomorrows headlines. She is now more familiar to some as the Cocaine Kate of recent tabloid headlines than as the face of Chanel and Burberry.This searching and remarkable book charts both her career and personality as she is propelled out of a misspent youth by the hand of fate to the top of her profession and beyond to become an icon, bigger than the brands she is paid a fortune to represent. However, within the whirlwind of that life the book reveals to us an all-too-human Kate Moss too, as surprised as anyone by the nonsense of celebrity, an apparently addictive personality with a frenetic desire to be loved that accounts for her merry-go-round of celebrity lovers and parallel quest for a dream man to endorse her ethereal fashion self. From the Johnny Depp saga to her strange affair with Pete Doherty, this book recounts it all in a fast-paced, taboo-shattering style that is in a mould reminiscent of previous daring exposes from Fred Vermorel.

The Sex Pistols’ story is one of opportunity and outrage; arising from the chaotic slums of the punk movement, Jonny Rotten and Sid Vicious typified the anarchy and anger of their generation like none-other. In little over three years the Sex Pistols had transformed popular music and paved the way the likes of the Ramones and The Clash to gain recognition and acceptance in their wake.In a revolutionary flurry the band mocked and shunned the British establishment and the music industry, wreaking havoc through the system from the inside. Their contract with EMI was terminated in little over a month; they were signed and sacked by A&M in seven days; their jubilee single ‘God Save the Queen’ took pop-shots at the British regime and hit #1 despite being banned; their foul-mouthed appearance with Bill Grundy on live television shocked the nation. In doing so the Sex Pistols liberated the anger of a down-trodden generation.The Inside Story – the nearest the Sex Pistols came to telling their own story – was first put together at the height of the punk rock explosion. The authors had unique and continuous access to the band, to their families and friends, to Malcolm McLaren and all the members of McLaren’s Glitterbest office. Now having been translated into several languages, Sex Pistols: The Inside Story has itself became part of the legend.‘Easily the best book about punk. The only one to articulate the mania of that moment.’– Simon Frith, New Statesman ‘Here at last is a truly solid and perceptive study of a group whose sensation reeking activities have so often resulted in perverted and overly biased viewpoints … Superb editing work … a constant fluidity which like any “good read” draws one instinctively into the action … Sheer revelatory potency … stands in a category rare in the rock ‘n’ roll stakes: the in-depth biography.’ – Nick Kent, NME ‘Absolutely astonishing … a real work of history … This book shows how much we live in a present continually overtaken by events. A shattered present … The Sex Pistols as expressed in this book illuminate the last quarter of our century.’ – Maurice Achard, Les Nouvelles Litteraires

Starlust es un extraordinario ensayo que se adentra por primera vez en los pensamientos y deseos —desgarradores, explícitamente eróticos o profundamente tristes y desesperados— de algunos fans de cantantes y grupos de pop de la década de los ochenta como David Bowie, Marc Bolan, Boy George, The Police, Barry Manilow o Nick Heyward. Tras cuatro años de investigación, trescientas cincuenta horas de entrevistas y cuatrocientos testimonios, el resultado es un alucinante crisol de una imaginación desbordante que a veces supera en intensidad a las canciones que con tanta pasión escuchaban los fans. Como apunta el autor, "¿cuándo escribió Robert Plant algo tan bonito como la fantasía que relata Lucille sobre él?".

Publicado por primera vez en 1978, Dios salve a los Sex Pistols fue el primer libro que alumbró, de manera documentada y precisa, la ascensión y disolución del grupo por antonomasia del punk británico que puso patas arriba la música popular y, de paso, la conservadora sociedad e industria musical de mediados de los setenta.Compuesto a modo de collage a partir de entrevistas con todos los miembros y exmiembros del grupo, familiares, amigos y colaboradores, el fascinante diario íntimo de la secretaria del polémico mánager Malcolm McLaren, extractos de la incendiaria prensa que vertió todo el odio y los prejuicios del establishment sobre la banda, y cartas de fans, entre otros materiales, el presente volumen es un originalísimo, poliédrico y vívido artefacto punk, aderezado con el material gráfico que creó para el grupo el inclasificable Jamie Reid y un buen número de fotografías. Como dicen los autores, este libro es «lo más cerca que estuvieron los Sex Pistols de contar su propia historia».