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Boy About Town (Paperback, New)
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Boy About Town (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R49
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'I was no longer fitting in at school. I was unsure of my friends,
and they were increasingly unsure of me. I wanted to be a rock
star. But while all around, voices were starting to break, acne
beginning to appear, facial hair sprouting, I remained all flabby
flesh and innate scruff, with a high-pitched whine and not a muscle
to my name. I was the runt of the class and rarely allowed to
forget it. I had no father at home to help me out, and could hardly
talk to my mum. So I took solace in The Jam.' As a boy, Tony
Fletcher frequently felt out of place. Yet somehow he secured a
ringside seat for one of the most creative periods in British
cultural history. Boy About Town tells the story of the bestselling
author's formative years in the pre- and post-punk music scenes of
London, counting down, from fifty to number one: attendance at
seminal gigs and encounters with musical heroes; schoolboy projects
that became national success stories; the style culture of punks,
mods and skinheads and the tribal violence that enveloped them;
life as a latchkey kid in a single-parent household; weekends on
the football terraces in a quest for street credibility; and the
teenage boy's unending obsession with losing his virginity.
Featuring a vibrant cast of supporting characters (from school
friends to rock stars), and built up from notebooks, diaries,
interviews, letters, and issues of his now legendary fanzine
Jamming!, Boy About Town is an evocative, bittersweet, amusing and
wholly original account of growing up and coming of age in the
glory days of the 1970s.
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