RaveNME... an immensely engaging memoir that fizzes with wit, and it is simultaneously a chronicle of a lifetime’s worth of extraordinary culture ... The book is also an at times bleak account of his descent into heroin addiction, always written with a lightness of touch, but never swerving in its mission to bare all ... it cements Clarke’s status as one of the most distinctive voices in pop cultural history ... The second, post-Pistols half of I Wanna Be Yours sees Clarke encountering just about all of the great, good and downright grim of ’70s and ’80s music...but it’s the obscure local characters, the figures skulking around the peripheries, that are the most entertaining ... If nothing else, I Wanna Be Yours stands as a thrilling document of some of music’s most exciting moments of the last century.
