Your Money or Your Life

The long overdue autobiography from the renowned and much-loved Adam and the Ants songwriter and guitarist.

As the 1980s ushered in a bright new pop future, defiantly shrugging off the hostility and austerity of punk, no band did more to sculp and represent this flamboyant new musical landscape than Adam and the Ants. Their music and image thundered across the charts, our TV sets and bedroom walls, searing into the imaginations of a generation.

At the heart of Ant Music stood Marco Pirroni, providing the powerhouse of sounds and songs behind their dazzling frontman, both as lead guitarist and co-writer of all of the band’s classic material – including number one singles ‘Prince Charming’ and the Ivor Novello-winning ‘Stand and Deliver’. For the first time, Marco tells his side of the story.

The book covers Marco’s punk roots and focuses on the glory years of the Ants before their implosion in 1982. He talks frankly about his complicated relationship with Adam as well as friends and musical contemporaries. Long regarded as an authoritative voice on the punk movement Marco now brings his wit and hard-won insights to deliver this brutally honest, viciously funny and deeply affecting memoir.