Andrew Mueller Andrew Mueller i(A106317 works by)
Born: Established: Wagga Wagga, Wagga Wagga area, Riverina - Murray area, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 1 y separately published work icon It's Too Late to Die Young Now Andrew Mueller , Crows Nest : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2013 7001875 2013 single work autobiography

'It's Too Late to Die Young Now answers the question: what became of the rock writer the day the music died?

There is no field of journalism more mythologised or more derided than rock journalism - with good reason, according to Andrew Mueller.

And he'd know. Starting out writing for the Sydney music street press in his teens, by his early twenties, Mueller was working for the legendary UK music weekly Melody Maker, earning a living by listening to records, going to gigs, hanging out in seedy pubs and travelling the world with his favourite rock groups. In barely two years, he went from a childhood bedroom with a poster of Robert Smith to The Cure's tour bus.

Though it didn't seem like it at the time, the years Mueller was living the dream - the late-eighties to the mid-nineties - were actually the last hurrah for the music scene as we knew it. The era of flourishing live pub venues and record stores, and rock journalists as cultural arbiters and agitators, is now long gone.

Featuring cameo appearances from luminaries of the Seattle grunge boom and the Britpop response to it, and encounters with the likes of U2, The Cure, Pearl Jam, The Fall and Elvis Costello, It's Too Late to Die Young Now is an Almost Famous for Generation X, and a hilarious and heartfelt eulogy to a life that seems even less probable now than it did at the time.' (Publisher's blurb)

1 Apathy in the UK : Book Tour in England and Scotland, August 2008 Andrew Mueller , 2010 extract autobiography (Rock and Hard Places : Travels to Backstages, Frontlines and Assorted Sideshows)
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings , October no. 3 2010; (p. 17-28)
1 Where Not to Go on Your Summer Holidays Andrew Mueller , 2007-2008 single work autobiography travel
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 18 December - 8 January vol. 125 no. 6600 2007-2008; (p. 92-95)
1 5 y separately published work icon I Wouldn't Start from Here Andrew Mueller , Sydney : Picador , 2007 Z1393054 2007 single work autobiography travel 'Andrew Mueller doesn't consider himself a "proper" journalist, and yet he's travelled from Afghanistan to Abkhazia, from Belfast to Belgrade and from Tirana to Tripoli in search of a good story. I Wouldn't Start From Here is his random history of the 21st century so far, and all its attendant absurdities, intermittent horrors and occasional glimmers of hope. It features gunfights, car chases and gaol cells, any number of exotic locations, and a cast which includes revolutionaries, rock stars, politicians, hitmen, warmongers and peacemakers.' (Publisher's blurb)
2 2 y separately published work icon Rock and Hard Places : Travels to Backstages, Frontlines and Assorted Sideshows Andrew Mueller , London : Virgin Books , 1999 Z1735486 1999 selected work autobiography travel Andrew Mueller couldn't decide between being a rock journalist, travel writer or foreign correspondent, so he tries to be all three at once. Rock and Hard Places is a retrospective of his encounters over the past twenty years. Among his adventures, Andrew cracks America with Radiohead, wanders all over the shop with U2, and tunes into the music scene in bombed-out Sarajevo. He accidentally goes to war in Bosnia, watches Def Leppard play in a Moroccan cave, and tries to make sense of Gallipoli on Anzac Day. He's funny, unpredictable and occasionally makes a point. (Source: Publisher's catalogue)
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