I was kind of ready to give this book a three stars (or even leave it unrated and move along with my life), but the longer I read it the more it annoyed me. And then the very ending Kirwan went on a strange rant about the modern day and the evils of tv and how music is now a nonessential luxury. It just all seemed very old man shaking his cane at all these damn kids.

And about 350 pages in he said he wasn't one to complain about record labels, even though he'd spent so many pages already complaining about all the garbage his last record label had put him through. Like why bother lying at that point.

I liked the politics and the stories about his family. To be honest, I'd be a lot better off just finding a book about politics. The music industry stories bored me and unfortunately that was a good half the book or more.

So if you're a fan of Black 47 and want a lot of behind the scenes stories about Kirwan's life and the band, maybe give this a go. I will probably just stick with listening to the music.