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I'm Not With The Band: A Writer's Life Lost In Music
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 - while trying to make Prince laugh startle Beyonce cheer Eminem up annoy Madonna drink with Shaun Ryder and finish off Westlife forever (with varying degrees of success)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 wishEscaping 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 BrosHere 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 JamaicaFrom 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
names she is confronted by glamour and tragedy; wisdom and lunacy; drink drugs and disaster And BrosHere 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 JamaicaFrom 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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