This is the memoir of a teenage mod From the East End of London.
Visceral and always entertaining, Clean Living Under Difficult CIRCUMSTANCES is a stand-out memoir that relives the thrill of the 70s and 80s, and the movement that helped make mod the most enduring and successful British youth culture of all time..
It even takes him to Ireland at the height of the troubles and to Australia where the local mods take him on a military exercise...
In Eddie it awakens a can-do attitude that sees him setting up a fanzine, putting on club nights, hustling jobs in the music industry, and eventually setting up a record label.
Once mod touched your soul it changed the way you looked at life, unexpectedly broadening your horizons.
We run with the crowd to decaying seaside towns, East End backstreet boozers and sweaty teenage gigs, all fizzing with an uncontainable excitement and often exploding into violence.
A born storyteller, Eddie takes us evocatively into a world of scooters, clothes, and music.
Written with humor, passion and attention to detail, Clean Living Under Difficult CIRCUMSTANCES is perhaps the ultimate mod memoir, taking us From meeting the Small Faces as a toddler, to the 1979 Mod revival, through the more purist 1980s mod scene and eventually to Acid Jazz.
His Life was changed forever.
Eddie Piller was one such kid.
The ultimate mod memoir - From Britain\'s best-known \'face\'.
WHAAAM! An unstoppable wave of like-minded kids fall headlong in love with 60s mod culture, revived and reformatted for the 70s and 80s generation.
A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with punk, funk, record shops, discos and clothes, and then...
This is the memoir of a teenage mod From the East End of London
