Dulwich’s Musical Past How are U2, Roxy Music, and Pink Floyd connected to Dulwich? Join me on October 4th for a musical tour of Dulwich and the surrounding area and find out about its many pop and rock connections.
I realise that to continue to get published I need an Agent. I have a 100,000w memoir of my life as a cancer survivor and going on to a career as a music journalist and broadcaster (interviewing 3 surviving Beatles, Springsteen, Lou Reed…) and bumping into Muhammad Ali, Harold Wilson and Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Also contains reflections on architecture, logistics and watches. Any suggestions? And in 2025, all best to struggling authors - are there any other kind?
I carry on writing and was delighted to see a glowing review of my latest book in my local paper the South London Press - "extremely hard to put down", so thank you Pauline Atkins
With The Beatles is still available, 69% 5* reviews on Amazon. It is based on my interviews with Paul, George and Ringo, as well as looking at how the Beatle brand has developed since the group split in 1970. It is also the first full-length biography in nearly 20 years. So that’s everything from Liverpool in 1940 to their 2023 No.1 single.
If you go to the publishers website
https://www.gnbooks.co.uk/product/with-the-beatles/
You can get a unique signed bookplate with each copy, every one with a Beatles lyric or song title…
Makes for an ideal gift in the 60th anniversary year of Help!, Rubber Soul and Beatle MBEs. .
Plenty of new old features have been added to my Archive section.
I have just joined Rocks Back Pages, so if you're a member you can see further examples of my work on New Musical Express and Melody Maker.
I attended Dulwich College 1963/69. Scholastically, it was time ill-spent, but illness meant a year away, and I still have friends from all those years ago. Researching various radio documentaries, I was fascinated by the eminent authors this – relatively- modest English public school produced.
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