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Limited Edition of One

How to Succeed in the Music Industry Without Being Part of the Mainstream
  • Author
    • Steven Wilson
Regular price £75
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Title information

  • Published: May 05 2022
  • Pages: 384
  • 1120 g
  • 246 x 166mm
  • ISBN: 9780349135106
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About the Special Edition

  • A beautifully designed slipcase, containing the Limited Edition of One hardback.
  • An exclusive supplementary edition containing 128 pages of additional material, and featuring never-before-seen photographs from Steven’s personal collection.
  • A 70-minute CD of ‘audio illustrations’ drawn from SW’s personal cassette archive, including everything from musical extracts from school bands to early demos by Porcupine Tree and No-Man.

Success outside the mainstream

Limited Edition of One is unlike any other music book you will ever have read.


Part the long-awaited memoir of Steven Wilson: whose celebrated band Porcupine Tree began as teenage fiction before unintentionally evolving into a reality that encompassed Grammy-nominated records and sold-out shows around the world, before he set out for an even more successful solo career.


Part the story of a twenty-first century artist who achieved chart-topping mainstream success without ever becoming part of the mainstream. From Abba to Stockhausen, via a collection of conversations and thought pieces on the art of listening, the rules of collaboration, lists of lists, personal stories, professional adventurism (including food, film, TV, modern art), old school rock stardom, how to negotiate an obsessive fanbase and survive on social media, and dream-fever storytelling.

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