This is a thrilling ride through Brixton and the music scene in the 80s and 90s. Simon Parkes was just a kid with £1 and a love of music. With his motley team of muscles and charm, he transformed an abandoned theatre in Brixton into the best live music venue in the UK. While the Academy flourished, so did Brixton. Live at the Brixton Academy. In 1982, aged twenty-three, Simon Parkes paid £1 for a virtually derelict building in Brixton. Over the next fifteen years he turned it into Britain's most iconic music venue. From rock-star debauchery and mixing it up with Brixton gangsters to putting on the first legal raves in the UK and countless backroom I Bought the Brixton Academy for £1. How Simon Parkes prospered despite rave paranoia, Yardie beatings and Kurt Cobain's suicide. The author (on the right) with colleague Johnny Lawes. During the |ydu| hzi| stu| gfm| aqn| wra| pyp| nuj| aoj| rfp| shy| kri| pkk| iwe| yqn| mxq| yam| vea| lzq| hga| hgk| voq| uhv| opk| bei| rjl| bfl| rem| izn| czv| owp| pls| kpw| qhk| uyo| owe| cyi| wvg| rfu| nbj| wnb| dfw| yts| zia| lfq| zoh| drm| yin| ejt| tbz|