Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'roll? I Swapped Them for Slurry Pits and Crudge's Moon Cheese
Mail on Sunday › December 17, 2006
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He became famous as the bassist in Blur, now Alex James is to be Radio 4's voice of farming. Here, he tells how he fell in love with country life complete with pipe and slippers ...
A few years ago, at the height of Britpop, I celebrated my birthday by throwing a TV out of the window of my flat in London's Shaftesbury Avenue.See the full content of this document
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Sex, Drugs and Rock'n'roll? I Swapped Them for Slurry Pits and Crudge's Moon Cheese
That's what you do when you're young and in a successful band. I just wanted to see what would happen, really.
First I checked no one was coming and then I hoisted the set off the balcony. It was disappointing. I'd thought it would explode much more satisfyingly than it actually did. Fortunately, the police were very reasonable about the whole thing and I escaped without even a caution.Last month I celebrated my 38th birthday on my Cotswolds farm. The police did not attend at any point. The closest I got to debauched hedonism was trying on a pair ...See the full content of this document
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