‘The band, the scene… I put it all in there’: Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore on his memoir of a rock’n’roll life

With cameos from William Burroughs and Iggy Pop, Sonic Life – the musician’s new autobiography – chronicles his long relationship with Kim Gordon and life at the vanguard of US indie-rock

• Thurston Moore on hanging out with Kurt and Courtney – and a wild night at Chateau Marmont – extract

Early on in Thurston Moore’s memoir, Sonic Life, he recounts a turbulent time in his teenage years when it all could have gone horribly wrong. Briefly in thrall to an older friend with criminal tendencies, he indulged in a short but spectacular bout of juvenile delinquency that included high speed car chases through the streets of his sleepy home town, Bethel, Connecticut, and culminated with them breaking into his nextdoor neighbour’s house and ransacking it. He got off lightly with a period of probation but, he writes: “My name and criminal offence appeared in the local paper and it humiliated my mother.”

Chatting with the 65-year-old Moore now over Zoom, his laid-back, thoughtful manner giving him an almost professorial air, it is hard to imagine such wild recklessness from someone who was raised in a respectable, well-off family. For a brief moment, I quip, he was punk in more ways than one.

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