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They plotted their path to world domination over endless cups of tea, with the music turned down low so as not to wake their sleeping sister.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThey knew they couldn't play in the same band because they'd argue too much, so they'd describe their dream ensembles to each other until finally, they realised that these two perfect bands were actually the same band, and the name of that band was The Jesus and Mary Chain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rest was not silence, and picking up those conversations again more than 40 years later, William and Jim tell the full story of one of Britain's greatest guitar bands for the very first time. This is a wildly funny and improbably moving chronicle of brotherly strife, feedback, riots, drug and alcohol addiction, eternal outsiders, and extreme shyness. 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