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DescriptionSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2016 Celebratory and elegiac Guardian A roller-coaster memoir Sunday Times Funny, anecdote-packed, nostalgic but also very touching The PoolPatterson fillets out the pretentious bones of pop, leaving its glistening meat Observer This is a three-decade survivors 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. In 1986, Sylvia Patterson boarded a train to London armed with a tea-chest full of vinyl records, a peroxide quiff and a dream: to write about music, for ever. She got her wish. Escaping a troubled home, Sylvia embarks on a lifelong quest to discover The Meaning of It All. The problem is shes mostly hanging out with flaky pop stars, rock n roll heroes and unreliable hip-hop legends. As she encounters musics biggest names, she is confronted by glamour and tragedy; wisdom and lunacy; drink, drugs and disaster. And Bros. Here is Madonna in her Earth Mother phase, flinging her hands up in horror at one of Sylvs Very Stupid Questions. Prince compliments her shoes while Eminem threatens to kill her. She shares fruit with Johnny Cash, make-up with Amy Winehouse and several pints with the Manics lost soul-man Richey Edwards. She finds the Beckhams fragrant in LA, a Gallagher madferrit in her living room and Shaun Ryder and Bez as youd expect, in Jamaica. From the 80s to the present day, Im Not with the Band is a funny, barmy, utterly gripping chronicle of the last thirty years in music and beyond. It is also the story of one womans wayward search for love, peace and a wonderful life. And whether, or not, she found them.About the AuthorSylvia Patterson is one of pop journalisms best-known voices. She joined Smash Hits as Staff Writer aged 20 during its mid-late 80s heyday when it sold a million copies a fortnight. Life thereafter as an acclaimed freelancer has seen her sprinkle irreverence throughout NME, The Face, Guardian Guide, The Observer, Sunday Times, Interview, The Word, Q and Glamour. Shes also the only writer to have penned sleeve-notes to the greatest hits of both Take That and Oasis. Because thats how she rolls (with it).
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
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