Pop Scars

A memoir on fame, addiction and the dark side of 90s pop

De: Anthony Kavanagh

Narrado por: Anthony Kavanagh

The shocking, tell-all memoir from '90s popstar and heart-throb formerly known as Kavana

Born in Manchester in 1977, Anthony Kavanagh's rise to fame was stratospheric, scoring a record deal at the age of just eighteen and winning the much-coveted Smash Hits Male Artist of the Year Award in 1997, all the while achieving top ten hits, appearing on countless magazine covers, performing on Top of the Pops and gigging alongside the Spice Girls. The stuff that dreams are made of.

But Anthony - or Kavana as he came to be known - was also trying to keep his sexuality a secret while navigating his way through an industry where image was everything; where his success depended on him having to be exactly who he wasn't.

What followed was a dark and dangerous spiral into addiction, an illness that would insidiously follow and baffle him for years to come. Pop Scars is a story told with fearless honesty that's at times as funny as it is heartbreaking, chronicling the highs, the lows, the self-destruction and the chaos of hitting rock bottom and then finding out that rock bottom has a basement.

Thirty years on, Anthony is ready to tell his jaw-dropping story. Pop Scars is a book about teenage stardom, fame, addiction, grief and - ultimately - survival and sobriety.

©2025 Anthony Kavanagh (P)2025 Bonnier Books UK

The honesty, and the humour… It took me on a journey through so many emotions

I loved every second of it… He makes you feel like you were right there with him and his writing is so detailed and descriptive and funny

Humor , grit and honesty.

I’ve admired Kavana since the 90s, and Pop Scars is his most honest and inspiring work yet. Raw, real, funny and deeply moving—I usually don’t finish my Audible books, but this one I couldn’t stop. It’s not only entertaining but also creative,brave and humanly in how he tells his story. This memoir will stay etched in my memory, showing Kavana not just as a teen star, but as a strong,brave person who has triumphed his biggest battle in life.