Sick on you: the disastrous untold story of the Hollywood Brats - the unsung heroes of punk

**MOJO MAGAZINE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR**

The Hollywood Brats are the greatest band you've never heard of.

Recording one near-perfect punk album in 1974, they were tragicallyahead of their time.

With only a guitar, a tatty copy of the Melody Maker and his template for the perfect band, Andrew Matheson set out, in 1971, to make musical history. His band, The Hollywood Brats, were pre-punk prophets - uncompromising, ultra-thin, wild, untameable and outrageous. But thrown into the crazy world of the 1970s London music scene, the Brats ultimately fell foul of the crooks and heavies that ran it and an industry that just wasn't ready for them.

Directly inspiring the London SS, the Clash, Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols, The Hollywood Brats imploded too soon to share the glory. Punk's answer toWithnail and I,Sick On Youis a startling, funny and brilliantly entertaining period memoir about never quite achieving success, despite flying so close to greatness.