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At the same time there is something a little sad about this book. I closed it after the last chapter, thinking there was something very shallow about the industry. Yet having lived a life in which pop and rock music was and to some extent is still very special to me, I felt that was rather a superficial judgment. We have long since realised that there is something very contrived about the whole charade, but we would find it hard to imagine a world without popular music. Tom has had the good sense to enjoy it – and exploit the opportunities, of course – while still coming out of all the craziness with his sanity more or less intact. His story is a cheesy one, but it's funny, self-deprecating, and quite enlightening. If you want to be reminded of the whole nine-day-wonder excess of the eighties, you will find a goodly chunk of it in these 300 pages.
For more insights into the eighties music scene, we can also recommend [[The Eighties: One Day, One Decade by Dylan Jones]], focused to a certain extent on Live Aid 1985, and [[Totally Wired: Post-punk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds]]. [[Teenage Revolution: Growing Up in the 80s by Alan Davies]] has some personal if less far-reaching views on the subject, while another of the major pop managers tells his story as well as giving abroad overview of pop and rock from the 1960s onwards in [[Black Vinyl, White Powder by Simon Napier-Bell]]. We can also recommend [[Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs by John Lydon]].
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