Biography & True Stories
October 2020
Hope Street
How I Became a Champion of England
by Campino
The story actually starts with Kevin Keegan, the Liverpool forwardwith the extravagant perm who became Campino’s idol during the1970s because he showed him which side he needed to be on.And when Campino became a punk musician, England was the answerto all his questions. He adored full English breakfast, Londonand even the Queen. What could be more obvious than the decisionfor the best football team in the world, Liverpool FC? This earlypassion has summed up all the contradictions of his backgroundas the son of an English mother and a German judge. Didit also have to do with the love for his mother and the austerity ofhis Prussian-bred father? - In his first book, Campino talks aboutall this, his German-English family and his burning passion for LiverpoolFC, which has quite a lot to do with his love of music. In it,a musician shows himself as a narrator who writes about tragedyand comedy, about loyalty and happiness - and about how it feelsto finally, finally be Champions of England.
