Man of the world.... but living in Cambridge. Maddening (rather than maddeningly well-read), and wit...
Man of the world.... but living in Cambridge. Maddening (rather than maddeningly well-read), and with a disgustingly low body-fat percentage. Nice guy too, allegedly. Liable to be reviewing films, music, books and places. 19/07/09 OOTBBLPD. TBBIEK. MP.
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A book that is tremendously annoying in the sense that as a music fan you wish you'd written it first. Giles Smith's comfortable, easy writing style takes you through his life with popular music; listening to it, buying it, obsessing over it, and finally attempting to play it in public for money.
Along the way he goes through such pivotal moments as buying your first single (and lying about what it was years later), realising that Dark Side Of The Moon is rubbish, discovering that a music fan can't lose his virginity with the record player on, being compelled to buy everything Nik Kershaw records, failing to heed John Peel's warnings that it'll all end in tears, the revelation that Andy Partridge is a total genius, being big in Germany for about five minutes, having your bandmate break down and run off to become a gardener, and becoming a music journalist because your mission to "become Sting" has failed.
Rest assured, I have bought this as a stocking filler for numerous people, and they're all still speaking to me. It's excellent.
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Doesn't sound too bad at all...I thought I was the only person who liked Nik Kershaw, when I say 'like', I mean, I can hum his tunes without annoying myself :)
tallulahbang 14.07.2008 02:27
I think that, in his rare moments of self-analysis, even Sting acknowledges that he's failed to 'become Sting'. xx
Oct 27th, 2007
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