It Takes Blood and Guts

Skin is a great musician and writes epic songs about life, but she is also a very positive and dynamic person who sees the best in everyone and loves adventure – of which this book contains many. I love the way she and excellent writer Lucy O’Brien tell her story starting from where her family came from and the influences that shape her childhood, growing up in Brixton with her strict and loving mum providing an anchor in the turbulent racism and anti-racism of the 1980s.
Skin seeks integrity and truth and from her friends gains the confidence to push back at abusive boyfriend and harassment from a street stalker. From these experiences, she realizes the importance of finding her voice. She keeps searching until she discovers who she feels happy to be, the band she loves to play with and the musical energy that makes every concert a best-ever for the audience because of sheer spontaneous energy and raw waves of music.
The book is inspiringly honest, reading between the lines you can see Skin’s persistence, discipline and drive in picking up and giving her best again and again. The story is beautifully crafted too, great selection, fastmoving and a page turner as Skin’s character and the band’s world beating career grow, get setbacks, and eventually recover better into a beautiful positive vibe. Whether you like her music or care to read insights into difficulties and beauties of being Black in Britain – or the world – this is a highly recommended book of honesty, leadership, integrity, respect, passion, history and music, and non-stop searching.
DISCLAIMER: Reviewer is biased.

A wonderfully gripping book about one of musics most interesting and intriguing personalities, with an incredible list of achievements. At times it is also laugh out loud funny! I couldnt put it down and have bought several for gifts

What an amazing and insightful book! I love Skin and everything she does – this book was a mixture of real triumph with pragmatism all mixed in with her fire, drive and humility! A great read!

The book was a bit slow to start for me and I found it hard to get into it. But as it goes on and once it gets more into skunk anansie and everything revolving around the band it gets really good. Skin is just a legend, a must read for any fan of the band or just skin herself

What a fantastic read if youre a fan you will love the book it is brilliant really good value for money on Amazon too

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