California Schemin': How Two Lads from Scotland Conned the Music Industry - Couverture souple

Bain, Gavin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1398564478 ISBN 13 : 9781398564473

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2026

Synopsis

**Now a major motion picture directed by James McAvoy**

How far would you go to make your dreams come true? 

Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd were two ordinary boys from Dundee with one extraordinary ambition: to become the UK’s first hip-hop superstars. Reinventing themselves as Silibil ‘N’ Brains, they convinced the music industry they were Californian rap prodigies – pulling off one of the most audacious hoaxes in modern music history.

For more than two years, they lived the dream: a huge record deal, MTV appearances, non-stop partying, and rubbing shoulders with Madonna and Eminem. They had fame, money, and everything they’d ever wanted – built on borrowed accents and fabricated pasts.

But success came with a ticking clock. The bigger they became, the closer they came to exposure. As the pressure mounted, the lie began to unravel – with devastating consequences.

California Schemin’ is a breathtaking true story of ambition, identity and the cost of believing your own myth – now adapted into a major film directed by James McAvoy. 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gavin Bain is a musician, a writer and a conman. He has been, amongst other things, a telesales man, a shop assistant, a waiter, a barman in a strip club, an actor, an escort agent, a construction worker, a graphic designer, a signed musician and a professional conman. He's had it all, lost it all and won it all back again. Despite being a hypochondriac, an insomniac and briefly a hermit, he has achieved many things including touring with some of the biggest artists in the world. Gavin's story has inspired a documentary and a feature film with SilverApples Media in Dublin, who have contracted Irvine Welsh to write the screen-play.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1398564478
• ISBN 13: 9781398564473
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Simon & Schuster; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italie