Zoë Howe (Typical Girls? The Story of the Slits, Wilko Johnson—Looking Back at Me) provides the brilliant narrative for one of most significantly turbulent and perpetual outsider bands to ever grace the pages of rock n’ roll history. Barbed Wire Kisses pulls no punches taking the reader through the origins of the Reid brothers from their influences in punk, the affiliation with Alan McGee’s Creation Records and the recording of their defining first album, Psychocandy…

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