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The shocking, tell-all memoir from '90s popstar and heart-throb formerly known as Kavana
Born in Manchester in 1977, Anthony Kavanagh's rise to fame was stratospheric, scoring a record deal at the age of just eighteen and winning the much-coveted Smash Hits Male Artist of the Year Award in 1997, all the while achieving top ten hits, appearing on countless magazine covers, performing on Top of the Pops and gigging alongside the Spice Girls. The stuff that dreams are made of.
But Anthony - or Kavana as he came to be known - was also trying to keep his sexuality a secret while navigating his way through an industry where image was everything; where his success depended on him having to be exactly who he wasn't.
What followed was a dark and dangerous spiral into addiction, an illness that would insidiously follow and baffle him for years to come. Pop Scars is a story told with fearless honesty that's at times as funny as it is heartbreaking, chronicling the highs, the lows, the self-destruction and the chaos of hitting rock bottom and then finding out that rock bottom has a basement.
Thirty years on, Anthony is ready to tell his jaw-dropping story. Pop Scars is a book about teenage stardom, fame, addiction, grief and - ultimately - survival and sobriety. Anthony Kavanagh, is a writer, singer and songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1990s with a number of hit singles, including 'I Can Make You Feel Good' and 'MFEO'. He lives in London. The shocking, tell-all memoir from '90s popstar and heart-throb formerly known as Kavana. Following the success of Reach for the Stars, we know there is a keen market for pop star stories from the turn of the century exploring the dark underbelly of pop life during these years Anthony is not only now a great ambassador for sobriety, he is someone who has lived to tell the tale in unflinching detail. He also happens to be a wonderful writer so can reflect on his life with poetic insight and sincerity Popscars has a broad market appeal - readers do not have to be fans of his music
Born in Manchester in 1977, Anthony Kavanagh's rise to fame was stratospheric, scoring a record deal at the age of just eighteen and winning the much-coveted Smash Hits Male Artist of the Year Award in 1997, all the while achieving top ten hits, appearing on countless magazine covers, performing on Top of the Pops and gigging alongside the Spice Girls. The stuff that dreams are made of.
But Anthony - or Kavana as he came to be known - was also trying to keep his sexuality a secret while navigating his way through an industry where image was everything; where his success depended on him having to be exactly who he wasn't.
What followed was a dark and dangerous spiral into addiction, an illness that would insidiously follow and baffle him for years to come. Pop Scars is a story told with fearless honesty that's at times as funny as it is heartbreaking, chronicling the highs, the lows, the self-destruction and the chaos of hitting rock bottom and then finding out that rock bottom has a basement.
Thirty years on, Anthony is ready to tell his jaw-dropping story. Pop Scars is a book about teenage stardom, fame, addiction, grief and - ultimately - survival and sobriety. Anthony Kavanagh, is a writer, singer and songwriter who rose to fame in the late 1990s with a number of hit singles, including 'I Can Make You Feel Good' and 'MFEO'. He lives in London. The shocking, tell-all memoir from '90s popstar and heart-throb formerly known as Kavana. Following the success of Reach for the Stars, we know there is a keen market for pop star stories from the turn of the century exploring the dark underbelly of pop life during these years Anthony is not only now a great ambassador for sobriety, he is someone who has lived to tell the tale in unflinching detail. He also happens to be a wonderful writer so can reflect on his life with poetic insight and sincerity Popscars has a broad market appeal - readers do not have to be fans of his music