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|summary=A generation probably knows Richard Beckinsale only from repeats on On the UK Gold TV channelscoast of Santa Cruz, and from occasional mentions in Patti Smith enters the context lunar year of the monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, and unexpected moments. In a stranger's words, 'how great he would have been if only…' In 1978 The Sunday Times Magazine tipped Anything is possible: after all, it's the 30-year-old sitcom favourite as a rising major star of the 80s who would blossom into one monkey''. As Smith wanders the coast of the great allSanta Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life -round stage actors. One year laterloss and ageing are faced head on, he was deadas it the shifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0752454404</amazonuk>1526614758
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Val DoonicanWalton_Ask|title=My Story, My Life: Val Doonican - The Complete AutobiographyAsk For Blues|author=Malcolm Walton|rating=43.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=In Malcolm Walton's book is clearly a memoir about his introduction to the 1960s, if Harold Wilson was Trad Jazz scene of the personification of politics late 1950s and the Beatles the collective icon of youth cultureearly 1960s, Val Doonican was similarly at the very apex of light entertainment. He may no longer have such a high profile – but he's outlasted them both. Over four decades he has refused chosen to bow to passing fads and fashionswrite it in the form of a novel, remained true to himself, and claiming in his prologue that this would give the process he has never really put book a foot wrongdifferent approach to the music memoir. As he says towards the end, His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm'When you find out what it is you do best, s mantle and what begins with his first discovery of the public wants from you, then stick Salvation Army band with it, and do it as well as you canhis grandfather.' With the possible exception This catapults him into a love of his contemporary and long-time professional and personal friend Rolf Harrismusic, it's difficult to think of another person in showbiz who comes across as more genuinely likeableinitially taking piano lessons, and more a genuine case of 'what you see is what you get'later delving into his true love – the trumpet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906779619</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo BerryMoore Bientot|title=The Ultimate DVD Easter Egg Guide: How to Access the Hidden Extras on Your DVD|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Consider the Easter Egg - at least in the way DVD collectors mean. Sometimes a pointless hidden add-on, that is there for no reasonA Bientot. Sometimes they can be a priceless bonus, seemingly gifted by the disc producers to those in the know, costing - at least in the case of some animated instances - many thousands of pounds. Some oik on set with a camcorder, they are not. I've been guilty several times of clicking away in directions the menus don't seem to encourage on the off-chance I find something (or, on a PC, just sweeping the PC mouse over any and every title card in case it highlights something previously invisible). Forcing several titles and chapters by going straight to them in case they're something secret is not a hobby I like to admit to.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752875205</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gary Giddins and Scott Deveaux|title=JazzRoger Moore|rating=5|genre=Entertainment|summary=At first glance this 700-page volume might look a little daunting. Do not be daunted. If you want a small pocket book which merely scratches at the surface and can probably be digested in a sitting or two, look elsewhere. On the other hand, if you want an extremely readable and comprehensive book on jazz which can not only be read cover to cover, but also retained as a work of reference to use again and again, I doubt if this can be bettered.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393068617</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Hornby|title=An Education: The Screenplay|rating=54
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|summary=Adroit marketing? Well, yesThe news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one of those people you knew would go on forever. ''An Education'' has been published, There was just one small glimmer of course, to coincide with the film's general release light in the UK. Hardly surprising since our national appetite for nosiness seems insatiable and cosy background details prop up every telly series and film these days. As well as sadness - the screenplay, Nick Hornby has provided an introduction and diary news that a matter of the filmdays before his death he's successful premiere at d delivered the Sundance Festival in Utah. Beyond triviafinished manuscript of his book, I think this fascinating little book presents an excellent 'how to' guide for wannabes from one of BritainÀ bientôt…''s most respected screen , to his publishers. Just a few months later a copy landed on my desk and novel writersI didn't even bother to look as though I could resist reading it straight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141044748</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Louis BarfeMaslanka Sherlock|title=Turned Out Nice AgainSherlock: The Story of British Light EntertainmentPuzzle Book|author=Christopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe
|rating=4
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|summary=Light entertainment is often looked down upon, as if itWho doesn's t love a bit naffgood puzzle, tepid and ignorable. What's often forgotten especially those really fiendish ones that get the brain working extra hard? There really is nothing to compare to that it's hugely popularbuzz we get from the Aha! moment, enjoyable when everything falls into place and much of it is of the highest qualitysolution reveals itself. Louis BarfeIf puzzles are your thing then you may wish to put your grey cells to the test with ''The Sherlock Puzzle Book''s Turned Out Nice Again tells , based on the complete story of British light entertainmentpopular TV series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843543818</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham McCannCorcoran_Dylan|title=Bounder!Do You Mr Jones?: The Biography of Terry-ThomasBob Dylan with the Poets and Professors|author=Neil Corcoran
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|genre=BiographyEntertainment|summary=When I was Bob Dylan's award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in my early teens, it sometimes seemed as if Terry-Thomas was one of 2016 'for having created new poetic expressions within the stars of almost every other five-star British comedy film aroundgreat American song tradition' proved highly controversial. He was certainly one of It inevitably led some people in the most recognizable characters of all with literary world to take stock and look at his gap-toothed grin, cigarette holder work and inimitable 'Hel-lo!', 'Hard cheese!'reputation with a fresh eye. This volume of essays was first published in 2002, and best of all, the angry, 'You're an absolute shower!'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845134419</amazonuk>is now reissued with a new foreword by Will Self.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Peel and Sheila RavenscroftKyncl_Stream|title=Margrave of the MarshesStream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan
|rating=4.5
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|summary=John Peel was without doubt one I watch quite a lot of the most important disc jockeys of all timeYouTube. Born I play music videos when I want to listen to a particular song I don't already have in Merseyside in 1939my collection. I use it to find out how to do things, he began his career in mid-60s America before returning home with the instruction videos they seem to join Radio London and then become one of have for pretty much anything. At the original Radio 1 teamgym, where he stayed until his death 37 years later. I admired 'll stick it on on my phone, prop it up on the man for his passion for playing cross-trainer and watch some behind the music nobody else would give scenes interviews with the time cast of day (even if my favourite shows. And sometimes I didn't always enjoy ll treat it myself) and his readiness to say exactly what he thought, even as if it was not what his employers at the BBC wanted is Netflix, to hearwatch series with new episodes releasing every few days, and I always enjoyed reading his columns in the music weeklies and later Radio Timesexclusively on YouTube. Nevertheless I found much of his show unlistenable towards the endHaving a new smart TV adds an extra, recall some of his rather curmudgeonly remarks on air (guest slots on Radio 1's Round Table review programme come easy way to watch without having to mind)plug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screen. So yes, I like YouTube and thought his build-I use YouTube. But I didn'em-up, knock-'em-down stance rather irritating after t know a while. So whole lot about the site it until I approached read this book with an open mind as a fan, but not an uncritical one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552551198</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo BrandJVDK_Swing|title=Look Back in HungerWe Can Swing Together: The Story of Lindisfarne|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=34.5
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|summary=Born in Hastings in May 1957, after leaving Brunel University It all began with a degree group of youngsters in social sciencesNorth Shields. Rod Clements, Jo Brand unsuccessfully applied for a research job with Channel 4 on a series about racismSimon 'Si' Cowe, Ray 'Jacka' Jackson and Ray Laidlaw formed ''The Downtown Faction'', then worked for soon changing the name to ''Brethren'' when they were joined by singer-songwriter Alan Hull. As a time as US-based group had a psychiatric nurse at similar name they opted to change the name again - and ''Lindisfarne'' (with the South London Bethlem name taken from an island off the Northumberland coast) was born. More than forty years on and Maudsley Hospitalwith numerous changes of personnel the band is still very much around. But They might not be touring or producing much in the lure way of showbiz proved too strongnew material, and stardom in stand-up comedy soon beckonedbut they still perform, with Rod Clements, one of the original members on his fourth stint with the group.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0755355237</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jeremy ClarksonJVDK_ELO|title=Driven to DistractionElectric Light Orchestra: Song by Song|author=John Van der Kiste
|rating=4.5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Jeremy Clarkson's middle name ought to be ''Marmite''. You really do either love him or hate him. I am My memories of pop music in the first campearly sixties revolve around guitars and drums, sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions into strings and brass. I think he is brilliantly funny. He is. He makes me laugh. Out loud. And like many women who watch Top Gear, (well, those that donPop music rarely stands still and it wasn't watch it because they are strangely – ''bizarrely'' - attracted long before the basic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to James May – I am '''not''' - or because experiment, with other groups following where they want to mother led. Amongst these groups was The Hamster – I do '''not''') I find Jeremy Clarkson hilariousMove and their lead guitarist and songwriter, Roy Wood. And I don't think you have Wood wanted to like cars to see develop the appeal either! I mean, the columns within group''Driven To Distraction'' occasionally start ''off'' talking about cars, s sound by adding more instruments but not always was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and they quickly move on to because the rest of the things that get group didn't really share his dander up before tailing neatly back to the cars again. Or not. And what is in between is pure gold dustenthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155548</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith FloydWatkins_Lets|title=Stirred But Not ShakenLet's Make Lots of Money: The Autobiography|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=I grew up with television cookery programmes and still have some recipes in my childish handwriting, which begin ''4oz SR fl 2oz marg 2oz C sug…'' as I battled to copy what was on the screen before we retuned to the presenter. Programmes stagnated My Life as the cook spoke to camera and lectured the viewer on how to make sponge cake or a fish dish. Then we were shocked awake. There was a man, quite good-looking in a raffish, slightly dangerous sort of way, who cooked on the deck of a trawler or wherever the whim took him, always glass Biggest Man in hand and who was quite capable of berating the cameraman about how he was doing his job. Like him, or hate him – you could not help but know that he was Keith Floyd, or Floydy to millions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0283071052</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPop|author=Peter Hook |title=The Hacienda: How Not To Run A ClubTom Watkins
|rating=4
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|summary=In Who on earth would be a manager in the beginning there was Tony Wilsonlarger than life, here today gone tomorrow world of pop? Anybody with an ego, a Granada TV presenter who came to prominence as compere of the music show ''So It Goes''. Then there was Factory Recordsruthless streak, the Manchester-based alternative record label he helped an opportunity to found, and their main act, the post-punk band Joy Division. After their vocalist Ian Curtis killed himself in 1980 embrace the band recruited another member chances and continued as New Order. Between them and their manager Rob Gretton, they decided accept that it's not going to found and run their own clublast, the Haciendaevidently. Peter Hook was not only New Order's bassist but also seems Tom Watkins is just one of several to have had walked the highest profile in hands-on management fine line and, for part of the establishmenttime, quite successfully. As his memoirs suggest, and despite a generous intake part of various substances is well placed to chronicle the sometimes comic, sometimes sad storytime was achievement enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847371353</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rick WakemanKendrick_Scrappy|title=Grumpy Old Rock Star|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Rick Wakeman wrote and published a more conventional autobiography, ''Say Yes!'' in 1985, and it has so far never been updated. This, written with the aid of ghost-writer Martin Roach, takes a totally different approach, being a selection of episodes from his sixty years in more or less random order. In theory it might seem rather disjointed, but in practice it works brilliantly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090056</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewScrappy Little Nobody|author=Karl Pilkington|title=KarlologyAnna Kendrick|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=The Radio Five film critic Mark Kermode has a rule when reviewing comedies. If he laughs more than five times then the film deserves its billing as a comedy. If that rule was applied to Karl Pilkington's new book Karlology then it would easily fit into the category for there are laugh aplenty in this strange, amusing and charming little book3.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140533746X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Linda M James|title=How to Write Great Screenplays: And Get Them into Production|rating=5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Over my time at university I've sat on a few scriptwriting modulesCelebrity autobiographies. IIt'm currently working on s a couple genre long tainted by the examples of projects with my scriptwriting partner, with whom Ipeople who clearly didn've already completed a pilot TV show. So it was nice t deserve to be asked to review this a celebrity, let alone have a ghost-writer create their book , and get some by those who did so little but managed to churn out five memoirs before they were even thirty. But more insight into this field recently it's become a way of writingstaking a claim to importance for female comics. IThey've probably read most every book on Creative Writing that you've ever heard of and not all written autobiographies, as Bridget Christie proved, but enough have to provide for a lot that you're probably not aware ofrapidly-filling shelf at the bookstore. When it comes to scriptwriting2016 we had Amy Schumer winning a GoodReads award, there really is only one book thatLena Dunham's worth comparing anything else in the field with: Robert McKee's ''Story'been at it, and we've also got Anna Kendrick. ItNow she's so heavily touted not a strict comic – not all of her films are designed to make you laugh, and some of them that Iare just don've seen it recommended by experts t – but this has to be in novel writing – a quite different craftthe same bracket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845283074</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barney HoskynsRopek_Tragic|title=Lowside of the RoadTragic Magic: A The Life of Tom WaitsTraffic's Chris Wood|author=Dan Ropek
|rating=4.5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=''Eliminate the Impossible'' is rather Chris Wood was a curious book in many waysmember of Traffic, as while it goes into considerable detail about inconsistencies and errors in the Sherlock Holmes stories written group formed by Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSteve Winwood in 1967 after he left The Spencer Davis Group. A gifted musician best known for his flute and saxophone work, it only gives a cursory glance at their literary merit – it won't be a Sparknotes-style primer for a student taking a reading shortcut. Insteadhe also played keyboards, it's more like bass guitar and contributed backing vocals as well as having a case history hand in writing several of the various Holmes stories, providing many interesting details, why mistakes might have been made, speculation about songs and one or two instrumentals. This biography takes its title from the stories, and so onname of one of his compositions for their fifth album.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312314</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jules HollandDolby_Sound|title=Barefaced Lies and Boogie-Woogie BoastsThe Speed of Sound|author=Thomas Dolby
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|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Jools Holland has always come acrossFrom struggling post-punk musician to pop star, particularly on televisionfrom Silicon Valley innovator to university professor, as Thomas Dolby has had a thoroughly likeable, down-to-earth chap next doorremarkable if not unique career, often reinventing himself on the kind of person you could chat to over the garden fenceway. This memoir of is based on his life, from childhood in a flat in Pimlico to leader of a band invited to play in front of the leaders of the G8 nations at a summit meeting, comes across in very similar fashionextensive notes and journals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141026774</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ted GioiaMorris_Legion|title=Delta BluesThe Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History|author=Jon Morris
|rating=5
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|summary=Without Elvis PresleyAs much as I like comics – and I do, Chuck Berry whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a bit pants. What is The Penguin but the Beatlesworld's worst Mafioso, rockwith a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colour, and got mardier as a result (although recently he'ns become a nanotech genius – but let'roll and s not go there)? And what is it with the gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is the embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the better-known enemies of ''Batman'', one of the music industry as we know it today might never have existedbetter goodies. But without You can imagine how awful the Delta bluesmen who were recording from baddies related to the 1920s onwardsbad goodies can be. And if you can't, there would probably have been no Elvis (or else he would have spent this is the rest of his life driving trucks as he did in his teens)perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393062589</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dawn FrenchFletcher_Midnight|title=Dear FattyIn the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett|author=Tony Fletcher|rating=4.5
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|summary=Showbiz memoirs are often difficult to writeTamla Motown groups and singers apart, at least without a collaborator in the mid-sixties there were three major names in the soul music field who can help the writer to keep a reasonable sense of perspectivemattered above all. (For a good example James Brown was something of a readable actor's own life storycult name who rarely bothered about or troubled the singles charts, try Dennis Waterman's ReMinder). Dawn French has opted for a completely different approach, by telling her tale in and Otis Redding was on the form verge of lettersshooting into the stratosphere when he died in an aeroplane crash. The first is to you and Iother was the man from Alabama, 'the reader, while others are to family, including her mother, brother Gary, her father (who took his own life when she was aged 19), her husband Lenny Henry, old schoolfriends, and other showbiz iconswicked Pickett'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846053447</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ben Crystal Paling_Reading|title=Shakespeare on ToastReading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library|author=Chris Paling
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|summary=Simon Napier-Bell is probably as qualified as anyone to write what is I once made a comical faux pas in a library when I was younger, but it certainly didn't put me off returning. I once declared in effect a history self-important way that I would start at the beginning of the British pop books for young children and rock industry not stop til the end, then do the same for those for the older children – ''and then do it all over again with them'', I said, pointing at the last halflarge-centuryprint shelves. In ''I hope not'', was the 1960s he managed the Yardbirds response – but little me was only aware of a need for large font for my fellow whippersnappers, and co-wrote Dusty Springfieldnot for any other reason. Since then I's only Nove needed libraries, and going to them has been second nature. 1 hit, in On the dole I made sure I could use the 1970s he looked after punk band Londonfree Internet they provided to pay me back for my council tax; later I was intent on finding out if a Senior Library Assistant girl was worthy of her title, and in the 1980s did the same of course, it saved a fortune on books for art-electro group Japan study and Wham! fun. In I'm not alone in sharing the process he's travelled most warmth of both their heating system and the world and talked very thing they were born to many provide – books, but there was still a huge step up between my level of the major players, use and seems knowledge of them to know almost everything there actually working in one. Which is about drugs despite having touched remarkably few of themwhere Chris Paling comes in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091880920</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angus Cargill (Editor)Springsteen_Born|title=Hang the DJ: An Alternative Book of Music Lists |rating=4|genre=Trivia|summary=Ah, the music list... balm to pop obsessives (see Nick Hornby's ''High Fidelity''), makeweight of copy-starved magazine editors, and staple of self-indulgent writers (see ''31 Songs'', also by Nick Hornby). The contributors to this volume fall mainly into the latter category. No fewer than thirty five of them supply their musical top tens, ranging from the fanatical Born to the frivolous, via the frankly frightening.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571241727</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewRun|author=Michael Bracewell|title=Roxy: The Band That Invented an EraBruce Springsteen|rating=45
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|summary=FirstNo, I feel the title is rather misleading. I came to this book expecting you haven't stumbled into a fully-fledged account of Roxy Music's history, imagining it would tell us about their career at least over the first four years of hits, namely 1972-76,to say nothing of their second coming music review from 1979 onwards. What I got was a lengthy account of the art world, cultural influences and student bonhomie which brought Bryan Ferry and the main group members together in the early 1970s. The story starts logically enough with Ferry's birth and upbringing in post-war Tyneside, but comes to a full stop with the release of their self-titled first album in June 1972.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571229867</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Holt|title=Stop Me If YouI've Heard This|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=As far as I can remember, my first time in print was when I submitted some jokes to a charitym talking about The Boss's themed joke collectionautobiography. Before then, some Lots of my first actions as a child might books have been laughingwritten about Springsteen by folk who knew him, worked with him and what is cuter in a baby than that? by others who have only read the cuttings. But why was that infant laughing Over the last seven years he has been going about – not putting the record straight, exactly – but telling it from his own perspective. As he didnputs it: 't have 'Writing about yourself is a joke he could get, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668109X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bill Oddie|title=One Flew Into The Cuckoofunny business's Egg|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Bill Oddie doesn't want to write his autobiography. He is not near the end of By his lifeown admission, and he doesnit isn't have anything to sign off onthe whole truth, as it were. Nor can he write it – if these days are anything to go bydiscretion holds him back but ''in a project like this, you have to be thirty or less and have had a couple of years in the limelight to qualify for writer has made onepromise, and not to show the career-spanning decades of fame Bill has under reader his substantial beltmind. Still'' ''In these pages, our heroic narrator has managed I've tried to produce do this book, which is to all intents and purposes an autobiography, but not as you know it, Jim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340951923</amazonuk>''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David N MeyerJVDK_Beatles|title=Twenty Thousand RoadsA Beatles Miscellany: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=Gram Parsons was in effect rock music's James Dean. He died too young Everything You Always Wanted to have achieved much, Know About the Beatles but in going Were Afraid to an early grave he seems to have achieved this iconic status of one of the 20th century's legendary might-have-been-greats if only he had lived longer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747565775</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAsk|author=Ben Macintyre |title=For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond John Van der Kiste
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|summary=So this is a book called Stage Presence, by Jane Goodall (no, not You might have thought that Jane Goodall), reviewed by John Lloyd (no, not that John Lloyd). Although, come to think of it, just about everything which John Lloyd might you could be expecting? For, over said about the past four years I have Beatles had been employed as a professional actor, said and have taken on the task of becoming someone else.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0415395968</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steven Savile |title=Primeval: Shadow of the Jaguar |rating=3.5 |genre=Fantasy|summary=One of the benefitscertainly, or otherwise, of being a committed Bookbag reviewer is that one misses all the TV that other people seem to enjoy. As a result, I am turning to this book, apparently the first novel to tie-in with ITVthere's Primeval series, having not seen hide nor hair been no shortage of the thingbooks about what went wrong, nor having any idea what it is about, save for dinosaurs roaming happened to the modern-day world, money and such things needing being put to rightseven what went right.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184576692X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joan Le Mesurier |title=Dear John |rating=4|genre=Biography|summary=I really enjoy reading biographies and always find I learn a lot about the subject that But what I didn't know ve never seen before. Recently, I read the Hattie Jacques biography by Andrew Merriman. Hattie was once married to Dad's Army star John Le Mesurier and I had is a biography on him in my ever-growing 'To Be Readmiscellany' pile, - all those little facts which are so I chose that hard to read next. I felt it would add an extra dimension to what I had learned about Hattie's life – track down and indeed it did.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0283063726</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Anne Nolan |title=Annethis is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's Song|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=To most of us, the Nolans probably conjure up wholesome cheesy visions of TV light entertainment shows, 'I'm In The Mood a man with an eye for Dancing' (top three early in 1980), detail and the wholesome image of ability to bring everything together into a squeaky-clean family act – rather like an Irish female version of the Osmonds, perhapsvery readable whole. But scratch almost every showbiz legend and somewhere thereIt's going to be darkness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846053471</amazonuk>}} {{newreview |title=The Autobiography|author=Johnnie Walker|genre=Entertainment|rating=5|summary=When I was in my late teens and early twenties, the Radio 1 lunchtime show presented by the man formerly known as Peter Waters Dingley was essential listening. It wasn’t non-stop chart music, neither was it too arty and Emperor’s-new-clothesness for art’s sake. It always seemed to be a healthy mix of much wonderful collection of the best Top 40 stuff around, plus a few interesting new names who weren’t getting the exposure on other shows that they deserved – and it was all presented by someone who communicated his enthusiasm for the music instead of sounding like an aspiring games show hostsmall facts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718148533</amazonuk>
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