A Guide to Getting Backstage is a memoir that attempts to help music-lovers learn how to get into clubs and festivals for free, have fun while doing it, and ultimately to take things that they love and make them part of their everyday life, possibly even a career.
Featuring re-published articles and concert stories about Prince, The Fugees, Beastie Boys, M.I.A., Ne-Yo, Laidback Luke and Avicii, the autho
How did life for a young student differ between the 1960s and the mid-2000s? The author of this book weaves in memories and observations from his own upbringing and London university education with a chronology of his daughter's experience going to Loughborough University in 2005. Changes in expectations, social conventions, language, transport, and of course technology make these contrasting experiences: some
Billy in the Wars is the illustrated memoir of ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, recalling his experiences as a young boy growing up in wartime Britain. Bill brings history to life through the personal lens of his childhood memories, where grim anecdotes of war are punctuated by moving moments of childhood innocence and joy. Three-year-old William George Perks (now Bill Wyman) was living with his parents and brother in
Billy in the Wars is the illustrated memoir of ex-Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, recalling his experiences as a young boy growing up in wartime Britain. Bill brings history to life through the personal lens of his childhood memories, where grim anecdotes of war are punctuated by moving moments of childhood innocence and joy. Three-year-old William George Perks (now Bill Wyman) was living with his parents and brother in
From his childhood in a small village in Sierra Leone in the last days of British colonial rule to his work with the United Nations in South Africa, Croatia and Bosnia, James Kanu shares his experiences and thoughts about his life. The themes of education and poverty are ever-present in his narrative as he tells of the small boy born poor who became an Oxford-educated graduate who would travel the world.
Way back in 1960s Great Britain there were two distinct groups of young people, leather clad, rock and roll loving, motorbike riding rockers and their sworn enemy, the sharply dressed mods, who rode their gleaming Italian scooters and loved the music of new bands such as The Who and The Small Faces. On the occasions the two disparate gangs came together the outcome was often violent.
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Rita Southam tells her life story with good humour. Her story will draw you in as she recounts a life infused with a fierce love of family and determination to be positive even during critical times. She has a wonderful tale to tell and, because of her experiences, many lessons to share. Have a box or two of tissues at the ready as you laugh and cry with Rita and, afterwards, you will feel as though you are one of
As Australian vinyl record dealer Shane Stark approached fifty, he didn't think much of his humble and uneventful life thus far. Harbouring a mild level of grief for the rock star, father, partner and career man he could have been, he found it hard to think of the life he had lived to date as anything other than ‘ordinary'.
But then one day he sat and pondered on all the records he had enjo
In this gripping and interesting book, Mike Rees outlines the extraordinary courage, skill and accomplishments of high-profile sportsmen and women during the Second World War (1939-1945). Mike Rees traces the development of these sports stars in the interwar years, and shows how the war affected them, as well as their families and indeed, the team they played for before (usually) joining up to fight against the fa
The little case is beside me on the bed, as are my two Jack Russells, who cuddle close, sensing my apprehension. I lift the lid to start my search into secrets of the past.
A letter written and dated July 1917, France. WW1 comes alive. An emotional journey has begun...come with me.
The renovations of the 16C rural cottage continue. Amidst old oak beams and aged flagstones, the dogs relish climbing
Gabriella is born as one of thirteen children into a poor family who suffer many trials while she is growing up: freezing conditions in winter, limited space and sibling rivalry for love and affection. Her mother believes the family is cursed, thanks to the words of an old neighbour. Gabriella survives the early loss of her father, terrifying abuse and poor treatment in her relationships, to eventually begin to ma
A semi-autobiographical account of how a working lad who left school in 1958 with no educational qualifications became a Psychiatric Nurse, and went on to some senior roles within the NHS.
This is a light-hearted account of the progress of the main character through his three years training, and also the strong camaraderie which existed in the mental hospitals in the early 1960s. This, very sadly, seems to
