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"Memory is born slippy. It has a will of its own. A butterfly bumping endlessly against a dirty windowpane. But then the sun comes out and there they are--memories glowing like stained glass." --Julien Temple, from Rebel Eye

The first memoir from Julien Temple, the filmmaker who found the Sex Pistols in 1975 and went on to record everything from punk to David Bowie, from the Rolling Stones to Earth Girls Are Easy--an electrifying account of music, cinema, family, and the unreliability of memory.

One hot August day in 1975, a London film student follows a Small Faces song to a derelict warehouse loft, where four boys are ripping it to pieces. In a city still in flares, they look like insect men from outer space. He asks if they'd like to be in a film. Their reply is unprintable. Back at his squat in Ladbroke Grove, he tells his friends he has seen the future.

That student was Julien Temple, and the band was the Sex Pistols. He had already lived several lives: a "Commie Bastard" playing on Blitz bomb sites of postwar London, estranged from a father scarred by wartime secrets, he grew up on the Kinks on pirate radio, sold his blood in Athens to pursue the hippie trail to Istanbul, studied history at Cambridge, and lost his younger brother to cancer just as he entered film school.

Then came punk, and the camera he never put down. His footage became The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle and, twenty years later, The Filth and the Fury. David Bowie hired him to direct the Grammy-winning "Jazzin' for Blue Jean," starred in his film Absolute Beginners, and wrote its title song. Temple made videos for the Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Janet Jackson, and Dolly Parton; directed the cult comedy Earth Girls Are Easy, featuring an unknown Jim Carrey; made acclaimed documentaries about Joe Strummer, Keith Richards, the Kinks, Shane MacGowan, and the cities and cultures that shaped them, and filmed Glastonbury for twenty years.

But Rebel Eye is as much about what a camera can't hold: a forty-year marriage in a business built to wreck them; a son who dreams in Spanish and a daughter who became a film and TV star; and the truth about a grandfather--bankrupt bandleader, jailbird, man of many aliases--the family had been trained to hide.

Dictated into speech-recognition software whose revealing mistakes he keeps, the book unfolds in 113 short scenes with electric transitions. A blind great-grandmother takes an axe to an elephant's trunk. A Studio 54 doorman turns away Donald Trump, then admits Temple for his English accent. Malcolm McLaren refuses a bin bag of Richard Branson's cash. A cancer diagnosis arrives, and Temple keeps the camera running.

Illustrated with color images from his archive, Rebel Eye is a wildly inventive account of fifty years at the intersection of music, film, and counterculture--and a meditation on the elusive nature of memory from a man who has spent his life trying to capture the moment things change.