[4] The Charlatans released their 11th studio album Who We Touch in September 2010; after touring concluded in December 2010, Burgess visited Wales for a break with his girlfriend.

[5] The pair visited Monnow Valley Studio in Monmouth, where the Charlatans previously recorded and to the location where the band's former keyboardist Rob Collins had been killed.

[6] It starts with Burgess experimenting with drugs during his adolescent years, leading into occasions when he would frequent band gigs and club nights at The Haçienda in Manchester.

[7] The Independent reviewer Fiona Sturges added to this, noting that Burgess "doesn't shy away from confessions that cast him in a bad light", highlighting a drunken encounter with Madonna.

[14] Margaret Chrystall of What's On North considered it a "rock odyssey that shares juicy details, funny stories and a lifetime of passionate music nerdery before dodging the darkness and docking in a surprisingly good place".

[13] God Is in the TV writer Mike Furber said Burgess writing the book solely gave it a "slightly off-kilter rhythm which, at its best, reminded me of the disorientating, folksy style" of Chronicles: Volume One (2004) by Dylan and "at its worst became a series of pedestrian lists".

While she considered it to be "generally upbeat and conversational so the occasional tangents placing The Charlatans in the wider musical context of the times read like ghost-written interventions".