Approaching 50 Mark Radcliffe decided to write about his life & his love of music. But crucially he only wanted to write about the most interesting days & not the dull ones in between. From The Day My Mother Hit Me With a Golf Club to The Day I Met the Band Who Changed My Life he charts the peaks & troughs of his life & career with wit panache & insight. He is very funny when recounting his days working at the BBC in the 1980s & 1990s (including how when bored he & his colleagues invented a fictional department) & on winning Stars in Their Eyes as Shane Mac Gowan. Yet amongst the laughter are more sober days such as the day when he learned John Peel had died. A cracking read & a potted history of both one mans life & his love affair with music Thank You For the Days is a uniquely entertaining memoir that will appeal not just to music fans but to connoisseurs of British popular culture.