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Tomorrow’s Here Today

By Ian Broudie

The definitive autobiography of musician, singer-songwriter and producer Ian Broudie, chronicling his career as frontman of multi-platinum-selling rock band the Lightning Seeds, with tales of Britpop stardom and footballing royalty along the way.

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Adult non fiction
Published: 12/09/2024
ISBN number: 9781788709064
Price: £12.99
Length: 352 pages
Edition: Paperback
Genre: Autobiography

Tomorrow’s Here Today

By Ian Broudie

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Adult non fiction
Published: 12/09/2024
ISBN number: 9781788709064
Price: £12.99
Length: 352 pages
Edition: Paperback
Genre: Autobiography

The definitive autobiography of musician, singer-songwriter and producer Ian Broudie, chronicling his career as frontman of multi-platinum-selling rock band the Lightning Seeds, with tales of Britpop stardom and footballing royalty along the way.

His excellent new memoir Tomorrow's Here Today reads like one of his own songs: full of heart and sparkling melancholy. It contains highly entertaining, often self-deprecating stories about a journey that began immersed in the thriving Liverpool punk scene of the late '70s that was populated with an improbable number of future pop stars.
The i
All Ian Broudie's great gifts as a songwriter – melody, vulnerability, empathy, hope – turn out to be in his prose too. A lovely read.
David Baddiel
The best start to an autobiography I've read. I've got "Pure" on a loop this morning.
Bonehead, Oasis
A fascinating memoir … there are points in the book where you suddenly find yourself moving in deep water. Love, loss, grief. The stuff of being human.
The Sunday Post

Few musicians have lived a musical life as rich as the songwriter and producer Ian Broudie.

From recording the glorious uplifting psychedelic pop of his band the Lightning Seeds to producing bands like Echo & the Bunnymen and the Fall, Ian has journeyed from the energy and potential of the 1970s punk scene to the madness of ’90s indie – and out the other side.

Throughout nearly fifty years of making music, he has had a front-row seat working with generations of fantastic musicians in the creation of countless groundbreaking records. In Tomorrow’s Here Today, he reveals what he has learnt about creativity, how to work with musicians touched by genius and what it is like to stumble through an exploding industry without losing sight of your dreams.

Along the way, Ian shares how he wrote the million-selling album Jollification and how – along with the comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner – he wrote and recorded the only single in chart history to reach number one in the UK on four separate occasions. ‘Three Lions’ has since become the undisputed unofficial anthem of English football, soundtracking heartbreaking defeats as well as the wondrous victories of the Lionesses.

Following 2022’s long-awaited Lightning Seeds comeback, Ian reflects on a life of cosmic adventures spent in thrall to the power of music.

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Ian Broudie

IAN BROUDIE originally emerged from the post-punk Liverpool music scene of the late ’70s, playing in the band Big in Japan. Before the band ended, they created the indie label Zoo Records, which in turn led to Ian producing for an array of high-profile bands (sometimes credited with the pseudonym ‘Kingbird’).

Releasing his first record under the name ‘Lightning Seeds’ – the imaginary group he had envisioned when he wrote his songs in the hope it would become a reality – Ian went on to find considerable success as the band’s frontman, culminating in the history-making ‘Three Lions’.

Ian’s studio is now located in Liverpool and he continues to write, record and produce material for the Lightning Seeds and as a soloist.