Tom McKennan’s Reviews > Stand & Deliver: The Autobiography > Status Update

The Faustian story of a man who turned himself into a real-life superhero, created some of the most singular and original records in pop, slept with about half the world's female population before descending into a terrifying and prolonged mental illness. We used to joke about the story of him throwing a car starter motor through a pub window but it's genuinely scary: a man in the grip of a breakdown goading thugs.