Tag Archives: Autobiography
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 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
Boy About Town Number 36: Jamming
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. Once I got over the disappointing realisation that In the City had not been an...
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June 30, 2014
Boy About Town Number 37: Do Anything You Wanna Do
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. Sounds was the music paper of choice for us third years. Not Melody Maker, which...
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June 13, 2014
Boy About Town Number 38: Away From The Numbers
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. Most punk rock songs assumed that we had all been hardened by our upbringings, that...
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June 6, 2014
Boy About Town Number 43: I’m A Boy
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. During our first year at Tenison’s, Chris took up the drums. It was the ideal...
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May 2, 2014
Boy About Town Number 45: Mamma Mia
Chapter by Chapter excerpts from Boy About Town: A Memoir, published by Windmill Books/William Heinemann. It was a concert, and it was the Hammersmith Odeon, and it was for the...
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May 2, 2014
Morrissey and The Nosebleeds: Setting The Record Straight
I’m sure nobody who reads Morrissey’s Autobiography expects every word to be true. Fact-checking tends to be the provenance of the third party biographer, who is expected to conduct thorough...
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December 19, 2013