I ordered my copy last week and sat down and read it all from cover to cover immediately without stopping (despite the fact that, ahem, it was
supposed to be my Christmas present, but the less said about that to my husband, the better
)
I personally thought it was beautifully written, very frank and candid, and that Mick came across as an extremely likeable character: honest, forthright, but not without his shortcomings which he seemed more than happy to elaborate on at length ("Angela fever", indeed... XD), which surprised me, as most autobiographies tend to accentuate the positive and gloss over the negative, if referencing it at all.
I was also not surprised, having read some of the outrageously shocking and scathing anecdotes particularly concerning David, at the depth of his continuing rancour. Since DS has not gone out of his way to improve certain pecuniary matters over financial rewards which really should be due (in my own opinion) to his bandmates, I can certainly understand Mick's aggravation. It seems to me very understandable why he may have felt that himself, Barbieri, Dean and even DS's own brother were betrayed and deceived at every turn.
Somehow I doubt that DS will bother to post or write any denials: it seems that the past, to him, remains firmly in the past and that he's moved on from his old friends, although it's not clear from the book whether any of them still have contact with him (except his brother of course).
Overall, I thought it was a fantastically written book - I think Mick may have missed a secondary calling as an author! - and worth every penny of twenty quid