A frank and honest memoir by the musician/guitarist/songwriter Alan Lee Shaw and his career spanning over 40 years. From humble beginnings in and out of the limelight, working with an eclectic array of characters from the Pop World: Kirsty MacColl, and Jools Holland to Punk Legends, DeeDee Ramone and The Damned to Russian avant-garde poets and European movies. Alan documents surviving the trials and tribulations from the hilarious to the quite simply bizarre Rock and Punk world of the 1970's, on to his turbulent tenure in the early 1990's reformation of The Damned as the band's main songwriting contributor.