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The book starts with an acknowledgements list, including a mention of Pat Roach and how Jimmy felt when he died during the making of the Auf Wiedersehen Pet two-part special. It then goes into Chapter One, discussing Jimmy's years growing up on Newcastle's East End Fairways estate. ... Read review
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Advantages: Plenty of interesting stories Disadvantages: Contains language some may find offensive
...with an acknowledgements list, including a mention of Pat Roach and how Jimmy felt when he died during the making of the Auf Wiedersehen Pet two-part special. It then goes into Chapter One, discussing Jimmy's years growing up on Newcastle's East End Fairways estate. Predictably, Newcastle United get a mention just two paragraphs in. He also talks about how his Mam and Dad met. Over 20 chapters, Jimmy discusses his horrible school years and his drinking ... ...the way he speaks quite a lot. Annoyingly, his accent has changed over the years but by and large this is written in a very natural style. The book is amusing in places. Jimmy mentions how one night on a music tour, he accidentally ate a whole packet of laxatives, thinking they were fruit pastilles. Of course, the inevitable happened, right on stage...
There are some sad stories as well as funny ones. Jimmy's bad lad ways when he was younger were ...
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