The story was first reported by ABC Gippsland, which said that about about 60 patients a year present to the hospital with bird-related eye injuries, according to hospital official Thomas Campbell. Since then he has developed - and shaken - a spectular drug habit, suffered a nervous breakdown, become a millionaire and, famously, visited 10 Downing Street. The size of a house brick, this book was a labour of love in the reading and, no doubt, in the writing.

I dont care about the end of Creation when McGee is taking drugs (I just couldn't ever sympathise with him, he seems so unlikeable) and selling out to Sony. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. For all New Labour's self-serving attempts to claim him, Cavanagh suggests that the intuitively left-wing McGee is really a vindication of the Thatcherite era, and consequently riven with confused impulses. Photograph: Supplied by James Glindemann View image in fullscreen James Glindemann, 68, of Sale, recovers after being swooped by a magpie while eating a Chinese takeaway meal in the Victorian town on Tuesday.One of the earliest bands on Alan McGee's famed CREATION RECORDS imprint, the LOFT played a style of British indie guitar rock that stood out at the time. Out of print for many years and regarded as one of the greatest music books ever written, My Magpie Eyes are Hungry for the Prize: The Creation Records Story is the definitive account of the iconic British record label, republished for the label’s 40th anniversary. Apart from the shock of it all, I just thought, yes, it had struck me in the face, but I didn’t think it had done any damage. Doubtless conceived as an orthodox rags-to-riches account of how Alan McGee's stewardship of the most celebrated independent record label in the world took him from a Glasgow housing scheme to 10 Downing Street, accruing vast wealth and narcotic-fuelled notoriety along the way, Cavanagh's project got overtaken by events.

Most obvious of these was the souring of Creation's always problematic relationship with its prized asset Oasis, but the book's gestation also coincided with the British music industry's slide into recession and McGee's disillusionment with what his company - and by definition he himself - had become. But magpies also have their defenders, including some of the people who spoke to the Guardian for an episode of the Full Story podcast this month. I was part of a small community of button lovers and collectors, and we all craved sparkly, rainbow additions - Emma to the rescue! com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.

Cavanagh reveals internal politicking worthy of Millbank, painting the sober McGee as gentler but no less paranoid, an increasingly distant figure, ill-at-ease with the market-led impulses of the new quasi-corporate company, although perfectly happy to accept the accompanying financial benefits. a janice long session from 3rd jan 85, 'winter' from 'wow wild summer' compilation, and 4 uncredited live cuts with a bad edit during one song. Their sound was actually somewhat similar to the New Zealand indie pop movement based around the famed Flying Nun label (ie- The Clean, The Bats, The Chills, etc). Where less assiduous biographers might have jumped straight for the hedonistic jugular, Cavanagh dwells on these bleak times, following McGee down to London and charting his fervent efforts to stir life into the capital's moribund music scene.