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'In the Spring of 1989, shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday,
as I stood in the sleet at a bus stop in Colchester, it dawned on
me that I had probably, all things considered, failed in my mission
to become Sting. At least, for the time being.' Lost in Music is
about growing up with pop music - about hearing it, buying it,
loving it, and attempting to play it in public for money. A
brilliant combination of the confessional and the unapologetic,
this is a book for anyone who has ever treasured vinyl, or sung
into a roll-on deodorant in front of the bedroom mirror and dreamed
of playing Wembley. Praise for Lost in Music 'Very, very funny . .
. Giles Smith is a wonderful writer' Nick Hornby 'A wonderfully
funny pop-music memoir . . . You don't have to know who Nik Kershaw
is to laugh out loud at the chapter about him' Sebastian Faulks,
Spectator 'One of the best books about music that you will ever
read . . . It is impossible to read Lost in Music without laughing
out loud' Daily Telegraph
In an age when sporting stars can win championships whilst hosting
chat shows, the relationship between sport and television has never
been stronger. Broadcasters' schedules determine when fixtures are
played and if a sport isn't deemed 'TV friendly' then who cares
about it? Giles Smith has spent five years in front of the
television scouring over seventy channels for any sport he can lay
his eyes on. Manchester United scooping the Treble; Schumacher
barging Hill off the track; Tyson chewing Holyfield; Argentina
beating England on penalties; Germany beating England on penalties;
everybody else beating England on penalties . . . Name any one of
the defining sporting moments of the last decade, Giles Smith
wasn't there. He was at home, watching on the television. Like most
people. And then he wrote about it.
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