
Boy About Town Number 31: If The Kids Are United
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. The Clash had made up for their self-caricature with their next single ‘(White Man) in...
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August 8, 2014

Boy About Town Number 32: Who Are You
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. I knew that Keith was in the building; the buzz had been going around all...
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August 1, 2014

Atomic: A New Musical
Especially, but not limited to those in the New York vicinity, I’d like to recommend Atomic: The Idea That Shook The World, a new off-Broadway musical that our family saw...
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July 29, 2014

Boy About Town Number 33: Tits
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. The Stranglers had just released their third album, Black and White, and the first 75,000...
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July 25, 2014

Boy About Town: The Web Site
When Boy About Town was first published by Windmill Books/Random House, in lurid pink cover, in the summer of 2013, I was thrilled, and somewhat surprised, to receive all manner...
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July 22, 2014

Boy About Town Number 34: What Do I Get?
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published in paperback by Windmill Books, August 14. ‘What do I Get?’ was the Buzzcocks’ take on the Ramones’ chainsaw...
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July 18, 2014

James: La Petite Mort pour toujours
My favorite lyricist is indelibly associated with Manchester, though he doesn’t originally hail from there. His name is Tim Booth and time and time again, over the quarter century-plus that...
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July 17, 2014

Boy About Town Number 35: Life From A Window
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. There were ‘flight’ cases lined up against the far wall, and people watching the show...
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July 11, 2014