Bobby Gillespie: "The working class was strong until the 80s, but we can go back"

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Right at the end of

, his autobiography, Bobby Gillespie recalls one of those lucky coincidences that have helped build a solid mythology for popular music:

, the third album he had recorded in front of Primal Scream, was released on the same day as Nirvana's

, September 23, 1991.

," Gillespie concludes, and suddenly his entire story floats, hangs in midair, in a

narratively brilliant.

What do the impact of grunge and the first encounter between psychedelic rock and electronic dance music have in common and what world did they begin to draw in that happy decade?

And how, years later, did he come to record an album as ferocious as

?

That, as Gillespie explains to EL MUNDO, will have to be told later.

«I had never written a book, and so I started to drop everything from the beginning.

and was told it would be okay to leave it on

.

And if the book worked, we will continue with the second part.

You might think that the youth of a musician who aspires to succeed in rock and make his dreams come true is not interesting enough to end up filling more than 400 pages, but in the case of Gillespie,

.

And that's why the logorrhea.

Un chaval del barrio

, which has just been launched in Spanish by the publishing house Contra, would fit into the category of

-history of formation and entry into adulthood-.

, in a trade union family that struggled to support itself, to use

, in the struggle for life in a slum.

In the following two acts the discoveries begin:

with a group, until the first sign of success appears.

"The book is about

," explains Gillespie.

«If I write the second part, then it will be something else: it would be like arriving in a new world and the adventures and misfortunes that have happened to us there.

And if that book is ever written,

."

It is not that

does not have its cruel side, as it contains long confessional passages -fist

, but, at the same time, it is written as if it were a fantasy, an innocent fable about the desires of a child immersed in a hostile environment.

Courtney Love calls Gillespie

and simile is successful.

«I explain everything that has happened to me, but

about that time.

It would be very easy now to say that he would not have done this or that, he is like those people who watch football and always make the best decisions at home, not on the pitch.

I had a dream, and this book is about the difficulties of reaching it.

Objectively,

: he was a fickle student who dropped out of school early to go to work in

and who changed course because, at the age of 15, he discovered punk.

That - seeing The Clash, buying Sex Pistols or The Subway Sect records - showed him that there were

.

Within a few years he had already put together his first group before Primal Scream, had joined

as a drummer without knowing how to play and had started traveling around Great Britain, discovering the wildest night, whether it was

, having spectacular van accidents or losing consciousness after continued drug intake.

In his personal development, Gillespie highlights three people in his training: his father -

-, producer Andrew Weatherall, who designed the electronic sound of

and his teenage friend Alan McGee, the founder of the Creation label, with which Primal Scream recorded their first albums.

And he ends up conveying the idea that, without strong friendship ties,

.

“Another thing I want to get across with this book,” Gillespie concludes, “is a message for young people.

I want you to know that the working class was strong until the 1980s and that we were weakened by

in Britain, and that this has also happened throughout Europe.

We were together, but we broke up and that screwed us up.

Still, we can go back: Corbyn's project in Britain failed, but

.

Many other millions around the world have protested against liberal policies, we are many, but we have to build from a new base.

Gillespie promises that, if he continues his memoirs, he will be judged more harshly - «I will explain where I think I have been wrong, or have betrayed myself» -, but there is something that he does not seem to have lost: the punk spirit, that continued need to revolution, of destroying the old to build the new.

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