{"product_id":"2940170382149","title":"How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was totally attainable. And so, armed with a homemade electric guitar and very little talent, he embarked on an alternative career amp;mdash; a chaotic journey which would take him from the halls and youth clubs of North London to the stages of Glastonbury, the London Palladium and The Royal Albert Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow Does It Feel?\u003c\/i\u003e follows a lifetime of musical misadventures which have seen Mark striking rockstar poses in the Sixth Form Common Room, striding around a string of TV shows dressed from head to foot in black leather, getting heckled off stage by a bunch of angry septuagenarians on a boat on the Mersey, showing Timmy Mallet how to build a tea-chest bass amp;mdash; and winning the International Street Entertainers of the Year award as part of a new wave of skiffle. Really.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHilarious, self-deprecating and blissfully nostalgic, this is a riotous account of a bedroom dreamer's attempts to conquer the world armed with nothing more than a chancer's enthusiasm and a simple philosophy: how hard can it be?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Octopus Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117246955760,"sku":"2940170382149","price":26.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170382149_p0.jpg?v=1763708772","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170382149","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}