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I'm Not with the Band - A Writer's Life Lost in Music (Paperback)
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I'm Not with the Band - A Writer's Life Lost in Music (Paperback)
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DON'T MISS SYLVIA PATTERSON'S BRAND NEW MEMOIR, SAME OLD GIRL,
COMING SPRING 2023 SHORTLISTED 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 Pool 'Patterson fillets out the pretentious bones of pop,
leaving its glistening meat' Observer 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. 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 she's mostly
hanging out with flaky pop stars, rock 'n' roll heroes and
unreliable hip-hop legends. As she encounters music's 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 Sylv's 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 you'd
expect, in Jamaica. From the 80s to the present day, I'm 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
woman's wayward search for love, peace and a wonderful life. And
whether, or not, she found them.
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