California Schemin': A True Story of Fakery, Money and Betrayal in the Music Industry
Autor Gavin Bainen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 apr 2026
How far would you go to make your dreams come true?
Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd were two ordinary boys from Dundee with one extraordinary ambition: to become the UK’s first hip-hop superstars. Reinventing themselves as Silibil ‘N’ Brains, they convinced the music industry they were Californian rap prodigies – pulling off one of the most audacious hoaxes in modern music history.
For more than two years, they lived the dream: a huge record deal, MTV appearances, non-stop partying, and rubbing shoulders with Madonna and Eminem. They had fame, money, and everything they’d ever wanted – built on borrowed accents and fabricated pasts.
But success came with a ticking clock. The bigger they became, the closer they came to exposure. As the pressure mounted, the lie began to unravel – with devastating consequences.
California Schemin’ is a breathtaking true story of ambition, identity and the cost of believing your own myth – now adapted into a major film directed by James McAvoy.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781398564473
ISBN-10: 1398564478
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 mm
Ediția:Film Tie-In
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster UK
ISBN-10: 1398564478
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 130 x 198 mm
Ediția:Film Tie-In
Editura: Simon&Schuster
Colecția Simon & Schuster UK
Recenzii
‘A blistering, hedonistic rock ‘n’ roll party of a story, it is written with brio and self-deprecating laughs’
‘One of the most amazing, high octane, hedonistic morality tales of our time . . . An absolutely essential read’
'Jaw-dropping'
‘This is the story of a rapping duo who enjoyed one of the most ludicrous careers in the modern music industry . . . A right rollicking read, with lots of sex and drugs and wild, wild times’
‘This story is like Robin Hood for the 21st century and will sit alongside all the great rock ‘n’ roll stories in history’
‘You can’t put this book down! It’s got echoes of Trainspotting, Fight Club and A Clockwork Orange, but it’s not fiction – it’s real’
‘Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd probably persuaded themselves that the fib they chose to tell was the kind of white lie that would harm no one, least of all themselves. But it was to break up their friendship, alienate countless other friends, humiliate the British music industry and drive one of them to the brink of suicide’
‘One of the most amazing, high octane, hedonistic morality tales of our time . . . An absolutely essential read’
'Jaw-dropping'
‘This is the story of a rapping duo who enjoyed one of the most ludicrous careers in the modern music industry . . . A right rollicking read, with lots of sex and drugs and wild, wild times’
‘This story is like Robin Hood for the 21st century and will sit alongside all the great rock ‘n’ roll stories in history’
‘You can’t put this book down! It’s got echoes of Trainspotting, Fight Club and A Clockwork Orange, but it’s not fiction – it’s real’
‘Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd probably persuaded themselves that the fib they chose to tell was the kind of white lie that would harm no one, least of all themselves. But it was to break up their friendship, alienate countless other friends, humiliate the British music industry and drive one of them to the brink of suicide’
Descriere
A true story of how two young rappers from Scotland fooled the record industry.