{"id":11504,"date":"2025-01-03T23:30:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/?p=11504"},"modified":"2025-01-03T23:30:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:30:52","slug":"11504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2025\/01\/03\/11504\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:1190,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/uk.bookshop.org\\\/p\\\/books\\\/exit-stage-left-the-curious-afterlife-of-pop-stars-nick-duerden\\\/6535869?ean=9781472277787&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250219123355\\\/https:\\\/\\\/uk.bookshop.org\\\/p\\\/books\\\/exit-stage-left-the-curious-afterlife-of-pop-stars-nick-duerden\\\/6535869?ean=9781472277787&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-03 22:22:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-08 14:44:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-12 00:46:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-15 07:38:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-20 18:06:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-26 16:50:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 02:21:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 09:56:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-21 11:30:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 08:24:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 15:52:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 01:28:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 21:07:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 20:19:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 04:14:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-28 10:33:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-03 22:43:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-10 07:19:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-15 18:07:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-20 02:38:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-24 08:59:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-28 07:30:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-05 18:45:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-12 21:34:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-17 02:50:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-22 23:08:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-28 12:29:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-03 18:55:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-09 07:36:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-07-09 07:36:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n<p>\ud83d\udcda Finished reading <em><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/p\/books\/exit-stage-left-the-curious-afterlife-of-pop-stars-nick-duerden\/6535869?ean=9781472277787\" title=\"Bookshop.org: Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars by Nick Duerden\">Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars<\/a><\/em> by Nick Duerden. A large collection of vignettes about various pop stars, which I ultimately found to be a bit of a trivial and unsatisfying read. It\u2019s the second book in a row where I\u2019ve not been able to mentally keep track of how and why the anecdotes have been grouped into particular chapter headings, which implies it might be me instead of the authors. I did like Stuart Copeland\u2019s reflection on playing new songs versus old ones at concerts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1525913C-9EC4-4E08-96E3-EBE95B53D085.png\" class=\"wp-image-11503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1525913C-9EC4-4E08-96E3-EBE95B53D085.png 1300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1525913C-9EC4-4E08-96E3-EBE95B53D085-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1525913C-9EC4-4E08-96E3-EBE95B53D085-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1525913C-9EC4-4E08-96E3-EBE95B53D085-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1525913C-9EC4-4E08-96E3-EBE95B53D085-700x394.png 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2025\/01\/03\/11504\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to \"><div class='e-content p-summary'>\ud83d\udcda Finished reading Exit Stage Left: The Curious Afterlife of Pop Stars by Nick Duerden. A large collection of vignettes about various pop stars, which I ultimately found to be a bit of a trivial and unsatisfying read. It\u2019s the second book in a row where I\u2019ve not been able to mentally keep track of [&hellip;]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":null,"activitypub_content_visibility":null,"activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federate","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12344,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2025\/08\/15\/12344\/","url_meta":{"origin":11504,"position":0},"title":"\ud83c\udfb6 It\u2019s Album Club #173.\u2026","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"15 August 2025","format":"status","excerpt":"\ud83c\udfb6 It\u2019s Album Club #173. 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