"TIM POPE IS A TRUE ORIGINAL, A GENUINE MAVERICK, AND I AM VERY LUCKY AND VERY HAPPY TO HAVE BEEN PART OF HIS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL, DARK AND DANGEROUS, AND SLIGHTLY PREPOSTEROUS ONGOING STORY . . . I AM VERY PROUD TO CALL HIM A FRIEND."
—Robert Smith (The Cure)

“Pope debuts with a candid memoir of his career making music videos for the likes of David Bowie, Neil Young, and the Cure. . . . [A]n account of the heady rise of music videos as a medium, with enjoyably absurd anecdotes. . . . [P]lenty here to entertain music fans.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Tim crashed the stage, camera on a fishing rod, chasing the shot he was seeing . . . and the next thing I knew, he was pressing it into my forehead . . . The book brought that moment vividly back.“
—Neil Young

“A dirty little page-turner from England’s greatest music video director. Like the man himself, it made me laugh and weep - all at the same time.“
—Matt Johnson (The The)

“Tim Pope is, to my mind, the absolute dog’s bollocks in the world of pop video. He is the OG, the Don, he literally wrote the book.“
—Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim)

“For ‘Sex Dwarf,’ Tim threw a bucket of maggots over us as I ran around in a leather jockstrap. There was a moment when we all thought, perhaps this time we’ve gone too far. It’s all in here.“
—Marc Almond (Soft Cell)

“Tim Pope is completely unique in the landscape of film directors. His broad scope embraces music videos, feature films, television programmes and commercials. His remarkable talent never fails to dazzle. Many years ago he endeared himself to me because he was completely delighted and amused when a senior TV exec told him what we had made was ‘formless rubbish.’ If this book is half as good as that then it promises to be fantastic.“
—Jools Holland

“Tim is a strange person.“
–Iggy Pop