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Then It Fell Apart Paperback – 2 May 2019

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*Featured in The Times' 'Best Books of the Year So Far'*

What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? The second volume of Moby's extraordinary life story is a journey into the dark heart of fame and the demons that lurk just beneath the bling and bluster of the celebrity lifestyle.

In summer 1999, Moby released the album that defined the millennium, PLAY. Like generation-defining albums before it, PLAY was ubiquitous, and catapulted Moby to superstardom. Suddenly he was hanging out with David Bowie and Lou Reed, Christina Ricci and Madonna, taking esctasy for breakfast (most days), drinking litres of vodka (every day), and sleeping with super models (infrequently). It was a diet that couldn't last. And then it fell apart.

The second volume of Moby's memoir is a classic about the banality of fame. It is shocking, riotously entertaining, extreme, and unforgiving. It is unedifying, but you can never tear your eyes away from the page.

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416 pages
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Faber & Faber
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2 May 2019
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15.3 x 2.9 x 23.4 cm
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0571339409
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978-0571339402
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So relentless in its depiction of his endless debauch that readers might need their own mental detox. It is, however, elevated by Moby's impressively vivid turn of phrase and hispost-recovery willingness to show himself in the harshest of lights as he slides from life and soul to black hole. The voice of a degeneration, this book is compelling testimony from someone who, finally, knows exactly who he is. ― Sunday Times

Often squawk-out-loud funny and unexpectedly lyrical in places [ ... ] Unsurprisingly, this morality tale, in which fame and money fix nothing and, indeed, make a lot of things worse, all ends in AA: you could read these memoirs as part of the 12-step amends making process. ― Observer

As the young Moby falls in love with music, his older self is falling apart [ ... ] He craved fame, but when he got it, it didn't make him happy. It's a tale as old as the music industry. ― The Times ('Best Books of the Year So Far')

A brutally honest and self-aware life story that lays bare the dark side of fame. ― The Express

Somehow this chronicle of a long, dark night of the soul also involves funny stories involving Trump, Putin, and a truly baffling array of degenerates. ― Stephen Colbert

Can't put it down. Honest, heartbreaking and really funny. ― Adam McKay, filmmaker

Then It Fell Apart reveals Moby to be a compelling storyteller, wholly likeable, self-depreciating, funny and someone who wholeheartedly holds himself responsible for the situations he finds himself in. The beautiful but banal celebrity world has rarely been so honestly portrayed. Another triumph. ― Classic Pop 5*****

In the hands of a less engaging writer, such travails might have turned into a litany of failures that disconnected a reader's full attention. Moby, however, peppers the details with skyscraper height name-dropping and droll anecdotes that regularly turns a desperately unhappy memoir into a pick-me-up holiday read. ― Irish Times

'Written with a rare, and endearing, candour' ― Choice Magazine

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The hotly-anticipated second volume of Moby's memoirs after Porcelain: a celebrity car crash of epic proportions after the release of PLAY.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber; Main edition (2 May 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571339409
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571339402
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.3 x 2.9 x 23.4 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 251,159 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 673 in Children's Books on Music
- 1,618 in Rock & Pop Musician Biographies
- 4,982 in Actors & Entertainers Biographies

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Moby has been making music since he was nine years old. He started out studying classical music and music theory, and then went on to play with the seminal Connecticut hardcore punk group the Vatican Commandos when he was thirteen. After leaving college and becoming a fixture as a DJ in the New York house scene, Moby released his first single in 1990—and has since sold 20 million albums. Known for his political and social activism, he has been a vegan for more than fifteen years. He lives in New York City.

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anthony tainton

Good book.

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Very good book.

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Victor Habbick

Still standing!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2021

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Considering his lifestyle over the years leadings up to the end of this chapter in his life I am surprised he is still alive such is the excess life style. That said the story if how he arrived at this point in his life is still refreshingly honest and at times humorous. Not much about his actual music production which is a shame considering its is very much the cause and effect of many of his future woes.
Still a very good read and a good companion to his first volume. I trust if he writes the last volume he may get the happy ending we all wish for or at very least some kind of contentment musically and emotionally.

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Richard Littler

Not as good as Porcelain but still a great read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2019

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I really enjoyed Moby's last book, Porcelain as I felt his writing style was very unique. I was excited to hear there was a follow up about his 'imperial phase' from 1999-2008. The book alternates between his childhood, which was unusual and sometimes traumatic, and his life at the height of his success. What follows is an account of a musician desperate for fame and recognition and the messy story of what happens when that quickly slips away. Drugs, sex and general debauchery take over his life and results in a lot of soul searching. The book rarely discusses his music outside of it's commercial success but offers a glimpse into the world of stardom in the late 90s. Definitely worth a read.

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Lee Theasby

Go (buy it)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 October 2020

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A lot better than the first part of his biography (released a couple of years ago with factual errors). This one focuses on his time when he hit the big time with the 'Play' album. The bald one went from being a party pooper to enjoying sex, drugs and rock n roll. Call me shallow but I think this is what improves over the previous installment.

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Stuart

ready for the third book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 May 2019

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I read porcelain last year and found it difficult to get into given the period of Mobys life that he chose to start writing from. Half way through that book it switched into the start of his colossal fame. While it was becoming harrowing, it stopped short of the real darkness. This book picks up from there and takes you through the spirals that consumed him in his desire for fame to last forever and the damage he was doing to himself with drugs. It's engaging for an overview and sets up for another chapter of his life to be written about.

There are a lot of things being written about Moby in the press off the back of this book, a lot of it unfair. Hopefully it doesn't deter him from writing about the last ten years he's been through as this book sets that story up nicely.

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Alex Cyrson

Great book, well worth reading

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 September 2021

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A really interesting book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 February 2021

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Very compelling and highly entertaining memoir; having lived that party life - experienced all the highs and lows one could imagine when taking aboard this lament - just a reminder - as in Tyson Fury’s recent biopic, reaching the nadir of your game can be an empty and hollow thing! I was expecting a happy ever after ending but he ends superbly abruptly. Bravo!

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John David Charles Hilton

Self pity and self indulgence from a rather unpleasant individual

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 April 2021

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I tried so hard to make it through this book, but it was just too awful. My opinion of Moby as a person was lowered by the Porcelain book, but this is so much worse (and so much more repetitive too).
I think of Moby as a musician. My interest in him is centered around the music he composes and performs.
This book has very little about his music, or indeed about music at all.
Instead it is all about Moby treating women as mere sex objects and expecting us to feel sorry for him because apparently his fear of entrapment forces him to treat women as sex objects and/or whores while getting drunk a lot and taking lots of drugs. How original.
This is Moby as a mere celebrity, a self-pitying whinger crying out to be pitied. He is sure to appear on some 'reality' show real soon.
I really wish I could wipe this horrid text from my mind, but I can't. I will still play his music, but probably less than I used to.
He should follow Zappa's advice. You know, shut up and play yer guitar.

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