I'm Not with the Band
A Writer's Life Lost in Music
$43.82
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
12 September 2017
Summary
This is a three-decade survivor’s tale… a scenic search for elusive human happiness through music, magazines, silly jokes, stupid shoes, useless blokes, hopeless homes, booze, drugs, love, loss, A&E, death, disillusion and hope - while trying to make Prince laugh, startle Beyonce, cheer Eminem up, annoy Madonna, drink with Shaun Ryder and finish off Westlife forever (with varying degrees of success).
In 1986, Sylvia Patterson boarded a train to London armed with a tea-chest full o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780751558708 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0751558702 |
| Author: | Sylvia Patterson |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Sphere |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 12 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 354g |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 200mm x 29mm |
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Critics Review
Celebratory and elegiac , the book documents the last three and half decades in pop and gives an honest account of an exhilarating and gruelling life. Top read.
A roller-coaster memoir, which also works as a paean to a lost era, when pop (and pop journalism) was flush with cash and kudos * Sunday Times (Music Book of the Year) *Great journalism, and also written with a clear, unsentimental eye * The Times *Patterson hilariously recounts life on Britain’s Brightest Pop Magazine ™. Funny, anecdote-packed, nostalgic but also very touching * The Pool *Celebratory and elegiac, I’m Not with the Band documents the last three and half decades in pop and gives an honest account of an exhilarating and grueling life. Top read. * Guardian *
About The Author
Sylvia Patterson
Sylvia Patterson is one of pop journalism’s best-known voices. Born in Scotland, she moved to London aged twenty, to join Smash Hits as Staff Writer, going on to freelance for NME, The Face, Glamour, Q, Sunday Times and many other publications across the UK and US.
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